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cobette

noun

Etymology

From cob + -ette.

  1. inherited from cobbe — “male swan; gang leader; bully”
  2. suffixed as cobette — “cob + ette”

Definitions

  1. A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.

    • I'll cook clams, lobsters—hot-and-spicy red potatoes and corn cobettes.
    • Processing budgets were completed for these seven frozen products: strawberries, strawberry jam, sliced green beans, cut corn, corn (cobettes), sliced apples, and apple puree.
    • Sitting late one night again in a burger bar, where I munched into some fries and a corn cobette, I mentioned my vegetarianism to Joshua and how I just felt a deep-rooted belief it was morally wrong to kill animals for us to eat […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cobette. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA