Citations:cobbler's pork

English citations of cobbler's pork

1. (UK, dialectal, possibly obsolete) Bread.
   • 1880, James Spilling, Molly Miggs's trip to the seaside: the adventures and misadventures of a country lass, or, A country woman's first peep at the world, page 92:

     I says, 'There aint much 'stravagance here, sir, for we generally hev on'y cobbler's pork for dinner.' 'Cobbler's pork!' he says, 'what-ever is that?' 'Why,' I says, 'cobbler's pork is bread and bread tu't.'

   • 1976, Jeremy Seabrook, A Lasting Relationship: Homosexuals and Society, London : A. Lane, page 13:

     Used to send you on some bloody fool's errand, send you to a shop for three penn'orth of cobbler's pork; bread that meant, only being a greenhorn you used to goo and do it and make yourself look a fool. I liked their compan .