WORD OF THE DAY: COBNOBBLE

COBNOBBLE

​NOUN
1. a blow ...Bk1826 Eng. dial.
2. (from The History of Sedgley Park School, Staffordshire, by Frederick Charles Husenbeth, 1856)
"A severe punishment inflicted by the boys themselves upon a boy who had offended by some bad conduct. It consisted of fastening his hands behind him to a table, which he was made to draw after him the whole length of the playroom, the boys all the while belabouring him with their handkerchiefs twisted into scourges."

​VERB
to beat, to strike, to chastise, to correct;
to knock on the head ...Bk1826 Eng. dial.

ETYMOLOGY
from cob (n. a blow; vb. to strike) + nobble (vb. to strike, to hit, to beat up), from nob (n. the  head)

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1826 - COBNOBBLE, to correct or chastize
From: An Attempt at a Glossary of Some Words Used in Cheshire
- Roger Wilbraham

EXAMPLE
"..Charles. He who would from parties rob'll
Finds out he's in the wrong box.
Clem. Him we'll capture and cobnobble,
Open locks whoever knocks...."
From: Lacy's Acting Edition of Plays, Dramas, Farces, Extravaganzas, Etc., Etc.
Volume 93, 1871
Robert Macaire, Or, The Roadside Inn Turned Inside Out.
- Henry J. Byron, Scene II