kob
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of kob
1765–75; said to be < Wolof koba
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Korn has got one thing that noboddy else has got, and that iz a kob.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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 Theodore Roosevelt
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 Henry W. Shaw
You will often see little boys and girls running down steps and paved streets on these dangerous kob kobs.
From The Women of the Arabs by Charles S. (Charles Seymour) Robinson
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 Charles S. (Charles Seymour) Robinson
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