cobnut

[ kob-nuht ]

noun

1. the nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, Corylus avellana grandis.
2. a tree bearing such nuts.

cobnut

/ ˈkɒbˌnʌt /

noun

1. other names for a hazelnut

Word History and Origins

Origin of cobnut¹

First recorded in 1400–50, cobnut is from late Middle English cobylle nutt. See cobble ¹, nut

Word History and Origins

Origin of cobnut¹

C16: from earlier cobylle nut; see cobble ¹, nut

Example Sentences

One particularly popular snack they point to is hazelnuts and cobnuts, which were in plentiful supply in the autumn.

From Salon

Prince also uses cobnuts, which is an excellent idea while they’re in season, as they are at the moment, and Berry uses the pleasantly bitter walnut.

From The Guardian

Or would it throw us some surprises too: a taste for cobnuts in Tyne and Wear, say, or a liking for nori in Mid Glamorgan?

From The Guardian

“A wiser person might have said no,” she says with a laugh over a lunch of heritage beets with goat’s curd and roasted cobnuts at Hix, a restaurant in London’s Soho area.

From BusinessWeek

First Mr. Irving gave a talk, then there was food: sweet shrimp garnished with wild celery and dittander, mushrooms and bone marrow with cobnuts, elderberries and chickweed.

From New York Times