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How to pronounce “cob”

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Pronunciation guide for cob

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of cob with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Alfredo GarciaYou can have it in a cup, or you have it on the cob.
Definition summary: A corncob.

Example 1 of 8

Alfredo Garcia

You can have it in a cup, or you have it on the cob.

[Noun]
A corncob.
The seed-bearing head of a plant.
Clipping of cobnut.
A male swan.
(East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
(Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
(uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
A horse having a stout body and short legs.
Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
(obsolete) One who is eminent, great, large, or rich.
A spider (cf. cobweb).
A small fish, the miller's thumb.
A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
(obsolete) The head of a herring.
(obsolete) A tower or small castle on top of a hill.
(obsolete) A thresher.
(music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
(dated or historical) A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
[Verb]
To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
(of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
To remove the kernels from a corncob.
To thresh.
To break up ground with a hoe.