kob
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kob
1765–75; said to be < Wolof koba
Example Sentences
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There are new bright red shoes, and old tattered shoes, and kob kobs, and black shoes, and sometimes yellow shoes.
From The Women of the Arabs by Robinson, Charles S. (Charles Seymour)
Take away from me all vanity, but grant that mi Sunday panterloons may fit me, even az korn fitteth the kob.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
From where I stood looking at them hartebeest, kob, waterbuck, and oribi were also all in sight.
From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Roosevelt, Theodore
Cob, kob, n. a kind of composition of clay and straw for building.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Kob kob kob, It is I, the little owl, Nim be e zhau.
From The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks by Walworth, Ellen H.
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