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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007"Cobbed"
An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." ("Copped" is what I've heard, and even used once or twice; I think it was fresh in the 1960s.) He definitely uses a 'b' sound -- not a 'p' sound. I asked him about the usage and he said it was pretty common. He is about 45, and lives in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, USA. Comments?  SignatureMaria Resident of southeast Michigan, near Detroit; native of east Tennessee. There's only one 'n' in my email address, and it's not in my first name. (The email address I use in this newsgroup is munged.) > An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Comments? Partridge says it's a variant of "cop", but doesn't give precisely "steal" as a meaning: his nearest are "deceive" and "catch" (as catch somebody doing something wrong). SignatureMike. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com >> An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >"steal" as a meaning: his nearest are "deceive" and "catch" (as catch >somebody doing something wrong). Let's see, in AmEng: "He copped a feel" (he managed to sneak a feel of a girl's breast). "He copped a plea" (he made a plea bargain with the district attorney). "He copped out on me" (he didn't follow through on a promise he made to me). Signature************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * On Jan 26, 2:06 pm, "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle...@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote: [snip] > > Comments?Partridge says it's a variant of "cop", but doesn't give precisely > "steal" as a meaning: his nearest are "deceive" and "catch" (as catch > somebody doing something wrong). OED also has it as a variant of "cop," and has "steal" as one of the senses of the latter. Aloha ~~~ Ozzie Maland ~~~ San Diego > An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Comments? I know both "cobbed" and "copped", also from the 1960s; also in Michigan where I was born and raised; I'm 59. SignatureBlinky RLU 297263 Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Maria Conlon: > An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." The only use of "cob" as a verb that I remember encountering is in Chuck Yeager's autobiography. He uses "cobbing the throttle" for the airplane equivalent of "hitting the gas (pedal)". SignatureMark Brader, Toronto | "...This is due to the Coincidence effect, msb@vex.net | more so than the Coriolis." -- Cindy Kandolf >An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >usage and he said it was pretty common. He is about 45, and lives in a >suburb of Detroit, Michigan, USA. Not something I've heard, but as long as he didn't try to cop a feel, you should forgive him. SignatureTony Cooper Orlando, FL >> An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." >> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Not something I've heard, but as long as he didn't try to cop a feel, > you should forgive him. I'm sure copping a feel was the farthest thing from his mind. By the way, the item "cobbed" was a handmade chess board he made when he was younger. The "cobber" was his sister, and she has repeatedly refused to give it back. He didn't sound bitter, though -- just perplexed. He no longer plays chess. SignatureMaria Resident of southeast Michigan, near Detroit. There's only one 'n' in my email address, and it's not in my first name. (The email address I use in this newsgroup is munged.) >>> An acquaintance used "cobbed" today to mean "took" or "stole." >>> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > perplexed. > He no longer plays chess. That's overreacting a bit, isn't it? Anyway, he should have *copped* the board back while she wasn't looking. SignatureSkitt (in Hayward, California) http://www.geocities.com/opus731/ |
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