by Iain Purdon » 30 Nov 2010, 07:00
Well, according to the Oxford English Dictionary
cob, n.
I. Containing the notion ‘big’ or ‘stout’.
1. a. A great man, big man, leading man; in mod. dial. expressing pre-eminence, as ‘chief’, ‘leader’, rather than state. (In the later use, the notion of ‘head’, ‘top’, may have entered in.)
b. A wealthy man; a miser. Obs.
c. A huge, lumpish person. Obs.
So a cheese cob would be, um, a big cheese? That'll be you Mr Dubber!
Iain Purdon
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