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What is a cob?

193 replies

Foxes157 · 14/12/2019 20:40

As we're doing regional words.

OP posts:
WishThisWasGin · 14/12/2019 21:16

Crusty bread roll in Liverpool.

Perfect with proper butter.

sheepysheep · 14/12/2019 21:18

Pony

poseysbobblehat · 14/12/2019 21:18

Crusty bread or being in a mood

CherryPavlova · 14/12/2019 21:19

Building material.

inwood · 14/12/2019 21:19

Horse

Blatherskite · 14/12/2019 21:19

When I lived in Yorkshire it was a horse or a mood.

When I lived in the midlands, it was a bread roll.

Now I live down south it's sweetcorn.

AngusThermopyle · 14/12/2019 21:20

A bread roll.
An ear of corn.
Someone really annoyed about something.
A type of nut.

guineapig1 · 14/12/2019 21:20

Either a horse, a bread roll or a bad mood - it entirely depends on where you happen to be

StanleyWalkersThirdWife · 14/12/2019 21:20

To me it's either a crusty bread roll or a corn on the cob!

notangelinajolie · 14/12/2019 21:21

Crusty white round bread roll.

gnomeisland · 14/12/2019 21:24

Cob house

myfuckingfreezer · 14/12/2019 21:25

Bread roll in Derbyshire

Not in my bit of Derbyshire!

gothefcktosleep · 14/12/2019 21:25

Big fluffy white roll with a crusty top

EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard · 14/12/2019 21:29

Usage in our house is

  1. a type of hazelnut - regional
  2. a real mood
  3. type of horse
  4. type of bread roll

Context gives the meaning in the sentence but all in use here apart fro the bread roll one, but we know what it means.

Elliemayclampett · 14/12/2019 21:31

Crusty round bread roll best filled with loads of butter, ham and picallilli

CoffeeRunner · 14/12/2019 21:33

A type of horse!!

But I work at a hospital in Birmingham where people will insist it’s a bread roll. Drives me crazy.

Allsloppy · 14/12/2019 21:37

Crusty roll -Leicestershire

shitwithsugaron · 14/12/2019 21:37

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SunshineCrocodile · 14/12/2019 21:39

Does nobody else use this to mean sweating profusely? As in 'I'm sweating cobs here.' I always thought to have a cob on meant to have worked up a good sweat or have a hot flush!

Angie6868 · 14/12/2019 21:40

Bread roll. I've always called it a cob though

PlasticPatty · 14/12/2019 21:42

A house made of cob.
A loaf that looks vaguely like a house made of cob.
A horse.
A bad mood.
A bread roll.

I've had cob nuts, too. Not very nice.

30not13 · 14/12/2019 21:43

Birmingham.
A crusty hard roll

bengalcat · 14/12/2019 21:45

Equine

fastliving · 14/12/2019 21:45

Southerner:
Horse
Nut
Bread

Littleroundsponge · 14/12/2019 21:45

A crusty barm. Also 'got a cob on' In a bad mood