the time I've had with them staggering bobs–could 'ave brought in a mob of snails quicker
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The cow was not alone, it turned out; for at her heels came "Staggering Bob", her calf.
Jacob had killed the pig for winter's use that week, and a fine fat calf (none of your "staggering bob," three weeks old, but something worth calling veal, more than two months in this world).
The present fashion of feeding upon spring chickens and ducklings is like attempts to feed the nation upon staggering bobs.
The boat returned in the evening, towing off a staggering bob, which was soon got on board and made into veal.
A "staggering bob" is a familiar phrase among dealers, for these little wabbly creatures.
When he thinks about 'pain to the animal' — the famished gull, the bleating sheep, the 'staggering bob', the tortured circus animal — he suffers their agonies by proxy.
1.1mass nounVeal from a very young calf.
〈澳,非正式〉初生牛犊
the stockmen were oddly squeamish about eating staggering bob
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We were compelled to live upon what the men called staggering bob.
They consumed cowpoke, staggering bob, and doubtful 'pieces' swarming with flies.
You're not worth staggering bob broth, with all your booklarnin' an' good looks, to say nothin' of your manners.
The taste for very young veal has entirely gone out and Staggering Bob is no longer to be met with in such a place.
He would as soon think of saying he liked staggering bob, as that he patronized the sweet pea-whiskey.
She is one that never denies herself the bit of staggering bob when in season.