Synonyms of the word cob


COBCOBNUT - FILBERT - GULL - HAZELNUT - SEAGULL - SWAN

cob

  • n. A male swan.
  • n. A corncob.
  • n. (English Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
  • n. Clipping of cobnut.
  • n. (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe;…
  • n. A horse having a stout body and short legs.
  • n. (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
  • n. Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos,…
  • n. A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth about four shillings and sixpence.
  • n. (obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
  • n. A spider.
  • n. A small fish, the miller's thumb.
  • n. A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
  • n. (obsolete) The head of a herring.
  • n. The top or head of anything.
  • n. A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
  • n. A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
  • v. To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
  • v. Of growing corn, to have the heads mature into corncobs.
  • v. To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
  • v. (Northern UK, possibly colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
  • v. To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral…
  • abbr. Abbreviation of cobble.
  • init. Alternative form of COB.

cobnut

  • n. The nut of the common hazel (Corylus avellana); hazelnut.
  • n. A game played by children with nuts.

filbert

  • n. The hazelnut.
  • n. The hazel tree.
  • n. A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.

gull

  • n. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  • n. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
  • n. One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • v. To deceive or cheat.
  • v. (US, slang) To mislead.
  • v. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.

hazelnut

  • n. The fruit of the hazel tree.

seagull

  • n. Any of several white, often dark backed birds of the family Laridae having long pointed wings and short…
  • n. (orthography) The symbol  ̼ , which combines under a letter as a sort of accent.
  • n. (Britain, slang) A fan or member of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club.
  • v. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, rugby slang, of a forward) To run in the back line rather than concentrate…
  • v. (boating slang) To use a British Seagull outboard.
  • v. (New Zealand) To work as a non-union casual stevedore.

swan

  • n. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus, most of which have white plumage.
  • n. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
  • n. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms…
  • v. (Britain, intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
  • v. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).

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