What is a cob?

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As we're doing regional words.

A pony.

Also a bread roll in Birmingham. (Barm in Rochdale).

A chunky horse
A type of roll
A type of nut

A nut or a lettuce.

Bread roll in Derbyshire. One girl I used to teach would sometimes announce, "Ooh, I'm sweating COBS!" which made me laugh.

There's a cob, like a jetty. It's in S. England, famous book around it. No sorry that's a cobb. (Lyme Regis)

Bad mood. ‘Got a cob on’

The lettuce is a cos

A horse or a roll depending on context

The thing the sweetcorn is attached to.

Bread roll
Type of horse
Be in a bad mood

An ear of maize/sweetcorn.

Sweet corn

A huff / bad mood :
"You've got a cob on"

A sulk.

A bread roll.

a small bread roll, a male swan, a horse, a nut

In Leicestershire were I was brought up it was a bread roll / bap / barn cake (as we say in the NW). We had soft ones and crusty ones.

Horse type. If I remember correctly, generally they are medium height in terms of HH, so not pony sized but not tall, usually around 14 - 15.2, and with a good measurement of bone (circumference of the cannon), something like 8 inches plus but it’s a long time since I was around horses.

A cob is a round loaf of bread, it's a contraction of Coburg.

In Kent, a cob is a nut, another name for hazelnut.

Where I grew up it was a silk, where I live now is a bread roll. I was well confused when I first moved up here and was asked if I wanted my bacon in a sandwich or a cob.

A mood, a bread roll, a horse.

And in the NW it's a sulk - a bit like having a "monk on"

... and when I first moved here and the woman in the chippy asked me if I wanted a barm cake with my fish and chips, I said "no thanks.... I'll have one of those cobs please".... pointing to what I now know to be called barm cakes!

Bread roll and sulking.

I was in a cob this morning so had two bacon cobs.

A crusty muffin

A male swan or a crusty cob is a bread rolll