Middle English Dictionary Entry
bobben v.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | bobben v.(2) |
| Etymology | ?The same as bobben (1). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To move up and down or back and forth; (b) in a facetious place name.
Associated quotations
a
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)1183 : Ȝa! whanne þi flesche is fayre fed, þanne shal I, louely Lecherye, be bobbyd with þee in [þi] bed.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mcp.(Manly-Rickert)H.2 : Woot ye nat where ther stant a litel toun Which that ycleped is Bobbe-vp-anddoun, Vnder the Blee, in Caunterbury weye?