▪ I. † bobbed, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. bob v. + -ed1.]
Struck with the fist; ? swollen with blows.
| 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 206 What bobbed lips, what ierks, what nips! [but ? blobbed.] |
▪ II. bobbed, a.
(bɒbd)
[f. bob n.1 + -ed2.]
a. Furnished with a bob (in various senses); formed into a bob; cut short (as a horse's tail).
| 1658 J. Robinson Eudoxa iii. 130 Frogs..are..metamorphosed into another shape..from tailed to bobbed. 1675 Lond. Gaz. No. 999/4 A white Mane shorn, white Tail bob'd. 1696 Ibid. No. 3201/4 A Bright Bay Nag..with..a shorn Main and bob'd Tail. 1768 Washington Diaries (1925) I. 256 Hunting again, and catchd a fox with a bobd Tail and cut Ears. 1894 Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 193/1 There is nothing more hideous than a bobbed jib. 1897 Ibid. XXIX. 464/2 Small boys strutting about in tall beavers with bobbed-off coats, looking..like tailless sparrows. |
b. Of a woman's or girl's hair: cut short and even all round (see bob v.5 2). Hence bobbed-hair, -haired a., with bobbed hair.
| 1918 Home Chat 3 Aug. 106/1 There is quite a craze for ‘bobbed’ hair, for big and little girls alike. 1924 Galsworthy White Monkey i. viii. 63 Her bobbed black hair, crinkly towards the ends. 1928 Punch 30 May 589/3 The new bobbed-haired lady cat-burglar. 1952 S. Kauffmann Philanderer (1953) ix. 141 She was a young, bright, snub-nosed, bobbed-hair cartoon character. |