cobby (house) n also cob, cobs, coopy house, copy (house). Cp OED cubby: ~ hole, ~ house 'little house built by children.' See also COOPY 'to squat.' A small building; a place on the ground outlined with rocks. Cp also COPY v, another children's activity.
   P 163-63 The girls there would ask me if I wanted to cobby with them in their cobby-house. 1966 PHILBROOK 141 A very popular diversion is 'playing copy house.' P 210-69 Let's play copy. C 71-5 A cob is a playhouse in the woods, roughly built. C 71-45 Whenever the girls played house they would refer to it as 'playin' cobbies' or'playin' cobs.' 1972 MURRAY 120 Girls often held their 'copyhouses,' '[cobby] houses' (i.e. playhouses) in the rocks just above the dash of the sea.

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