dobbing?

[pyrat]

Aye min whats dobbing?

[mharky]

none of the above...

dobbing is telling on someone.

to dob someone in

[Asian]

Aye, that's what it is by the way, it's grassin on someone, telling on them, being a snitch, being a tell tale and all that!

So whose been dobbing on who?

[brooner]

ahm tellin on pyrat, he sed rood words

[samsonite]

surely dobbing is the verb attached to that most loved of burberry'd weegie salutations

"awrite ya fukkin SI Card"

[pyrat]

aye its not telling on someone in this case thats too lamely obvious.

from varsity thread:
what the "intelligent" orienteers get up to -

"Fat man Scoop incidents, sleeping bags fights and multiple dobbings."

[PorkyFatBoy]

I always thought it was spitting, but I'm not sure that makes much sense here either

[bendover]

yeah, and i asked a pretty fair question - who's been on the end of a good hard dobbing then? and none of the 'toffs' replied.

so obviously its a dark, dark secret...

[Asian]

I get where your coming from now, didn't read that whole thread as couldn't be arsed, so in the context in which it is put, I would say Lobban is on track, but in a different atmosphere/ environment (i.e. OXFOOOOOORD)so I think it is like the wegies would say "I'm going to burst ya" relating to I'm going to punch you so hard in the nose that it will burst you nose and make it bleed, however, down south, in the oh so frightfully lovely darling of a town oxford it means "I'm going to give you a dobbing" relating to I'm going to tap you on the nose and make it drible with a little tuch of Clarret for which you may have to dobb with a hankerchief to stop it dripping on the cream carpet!

[Becks]

You're on the right tracks...it's not really that much of a mystery when you consider what we call the metal studs on the bottom of our o shoes...

[Meat Market]

I thought dobbing was something to do with dropping the soap in the oxford showers (its ok this is well past the watershed )

[Mrs H.]

I always thought it was spitting,

Gobbing, surely

I think dobbing is something to do with boy scouts (dib, dib dob!)

[bendover]

gis a wee gobbie ya bam!

[Guest]

Surprisingly none of the suggestions come up on Google. You can visit a Dobbin(g) Wood in the Lake District with the Scuba Divers or you can investigate Dobbings record throw via british athletic. What does the dictionary say???

Hocolite

[Mrs H.]

....and even more amazingly - it doesn't appear in the Viz Profanisaurus - so it can't be a real rude word at all - how disappointing - on the other hand perhaps this is our chance to make up a real rude word all of our own