pobby

adj

pobby

adj

UK /ˈpɒbi/

Etymology From *pob [Term?] + -y.

1

pulpy, swollen.

There are, in India, ghosts who take the form of fat, cold, pobby corpses, and hide in trees near the roadside till a traveller passes.1888, Rudyard Kipling, “My Own True Ghost Story”, in The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Tales, Folio Society, published 2005, page 103:

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