What is a cob?

[Foxes157]

As we're doing regional words.

A Male swan or a bread roll or a horse

A horse. I live in Cheshire

-Corn on the
-A horse

I'd assume corn on the cob- South Wales 🤷🏽‍♀️

bap or barm cake was a soft bread roll, a cob was a crusty roll or round loaf

A sturdy horse, great for wandering over moorland. Sweetcorn. Native hazel nuts.

Or when somebody's really pissed off, they've got one on.

Southwest.

And a male swan.

It’s a bread roll (it’s getting a little bit cancel the cheque on this thread now lol) but even as a proud Welsh valleys person I am partial to the word barm and use it instead I feel bad for the cultural appropriation though x

Cob is not a bun, it's a round loaf of bread (Northumberland)

It's also a horse, lots of horsey types here so we see a fair few out and about.

One of those horrible things you eat, yellow and look like teeth!

Ah! It's corn on the cob!

A sturdy horse, a bread roll in Nottinghamshire, a bad mood, or an ear of corn as in corn on the cob.

Oh and cob nuts

It is what we call a bread roll here in the east Midlands.

A bread roll. I'm Midlands. I went to Dorset and asked for a chip cob. No one knew what I was on about.

A sulk

@4theanimals love this, what is a chip cob in Dorset?

I live just in the Derbyshire Dales and no one says cob round here, my kids grew up here and go to school in Ashbourne and would not use so. and yet Derby is 10 miles up the road, Burton on Trent is 12 miles. It's all about cob there which is a bread roll and many sandwich shops in the area are called cob shops. Is Suzy Dent on Mumsnet? We need her origin of words wisdom here.

Horse

@safariboot I never knew it was a type of horse, but then I'm not rural or posh so I've never had anything to do with horses

That has to be one of the stupidest, most stereotypically ridiculous things I’ve ever read on here. I don’t live rurally, the horse is kept on a yard some miles away. I’m not even vaguely posh. The very idea is laughable.

(A corn on the) cob

Bad mood / crusty barm

Sweet corn or a horse. I've never heard of a bread roll being called it.

Also a round crusty loaf - but you had to say cob loaf or you'd get a bag of little cubs in the bakery I worked in at age 15

*@safariboot I never knew it was a type of horse, but then I'm not rural or posh so I've never had anything to do with horses

That has to be one of the stupidest, most stereotypically ridiculous things I’ve ever read on here. I don’t live rurally, the horse is kept on a yard some miles away. I’m not even vaguely posh. The very idea is laughable.*

To be fair I don’t think it’s laughable. I am not rural and have literally never met anyone who rides. The odd time someone has had a riding lesson it’s a bit of a one off to try out and never follow up. Horse riding just not on the radar of the people I come across and yes, knowing nothing about riding I would also assume it’s an expensive hobby which people either couldn’t afford or wouldn’t be interested in affording because they assume it’s expensive