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A stupid, sluggish, inactive person; a lob. Such a calfe, such an asse, such a blocke, … such a lobcocke. Udall, Roister Doister, iii. 3.

Again at the lobby (like a lobcock)[8] of the House of Commons, about your Irish yarn, and again put off till Friday; and I and Patrick went into the City by water, where I dined, and then I went to the auction of Charles Barnard's books; but the good ones were so monstrous dear, I could not reach them, so I laid out one pound seven shillings but very indifferently, and came away, and will go there no more. — The Journal to Stella
May I never be damned if I was not so much a lobcock as to believe they had been immortal, like so many fine angels. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
Again at the lobby (like a lobcock) [8] of the House of Commons, about your Irish yarn, and again put off till Friday; and I and Patrick went into the City by water, where I dined, and then I went to the auction of Charles — The Journal to Stella