Lobkin, subs. (old).—A house; a lodging: see LIPKEN.
1662. Breton, Strange Newes [Grosart (1876), ii. s. 10, 2. 27]. In a country village called Lobkin the large.
Loblolly, subs. (old).—1. A lubber;
a lout; a fool.
1604. Breton, Grimello's Fortunes, p. 9 [ed. Grosart, 1879]. This lob-*lollie with slauering lips would be making loue.
1680. Cotton, Scoffer Scofft, in Wks. (1725), p. 209. Whilst he not dreaming of thy Folly, Lies gaping like a great lob-lolly.
2. (nautical).—Water-gruel; spoon-meat.
1621. Burton, Anatomy (ed. 1852), ii. 178. There is a difference (he grumbles) between laplolly and pheasants.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
1703. Ward, London Spy, Pt. xii. 289. Considering Coffee to be a liquor that sits most easie upon Wine, we thought it the best way to check the aspiring Fumes of the most Christian Juice by an Antichristian Dose of Mahometan loblolly.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1748. F. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Loblolly (S.) any uncouth, strange, irregular mixture of different things together to compose pottage or broth.
1767. Garrick, Peep behind the Curtain, i. 2. My ingenious countrymen have no taste now for the high seasoned comedies; and I am sure that I have none for the pap and loplolly of our present writers.
1787. Grose, Prov. Glossary. Lob-*lolly, an odd mixture of spoon-meat.
Loblolly-boy, subs. (nautical).—See
quots. In America a bayman
or nurse (q.v.). See quots.
1617. Shadwell, Fair Quaker of Deal, i. [sailor loq.] Our rogue of a loblolly doctor, being not satisfied with his twopences, must have a note for ten months' pay for every cure.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, xxvii. The rude insults of the sailors and petty officers, among whom I was known by the name of loblolly boy.
1776. The Patent, a Poem [Note]. Lob-lolly-boy is a person who on board of a man-of-war attends the surgeon and his mates, and one who knows just as much of the business of a seaman as the author of this poem.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. On board of the ships of war, water-gruel is called loblolly, and the surgeon's servant or mate, the loblolly boy.
1846. Robert Bell, Ballads & Songs of the Peasantry of England, p. 182. Jack Rider of Linton was loblolley boy aboard the Victory.
1883. Clark Russell, Sailors' Language, s.v.
1885. Punch, 11 July, p. 18. Lor' bless yer, a loblolly boy can tell old hands how not to steer.
Lobs, subs. (common).—1. An assistant
watcher; an under-game-*keeper.
2. (common).—An abbreviation of lobster (q.v.).
Intj. (schoolboys').—A signal of a masters' approach.
Lobscouse, subs. (nautical).—A hash
of meat and vegetable; an olio;
a gallimaufrey (q.v.); see Soap-and-bullion.
[Other nautical food names, mostly derisive, are choke-dog; daddy funk; dead horse; dogbody; dough Jehovahs; hishee-hashee; measles; sea-pie; soft tack; soap-and-bullion; tommy; twice-laid.]
1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, ix. This genial banquet was entirely composed of sea-dishes . . . the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury composition known by the name of lob's-course.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1840. R. H. Dana, Two Years before the Mast, v. The cook had just made for us a mess of hot scouse—that is, biscuit pounded fine, salt beef cut into small pieces, and a few potatoes, boiled up together and seasoned with pepper.
