mob (1), mobb

[A contr. for mobile in the Lat. phrase mobile vulgus = the fickle common people. [МоBILE.] Introduced into the English language during the latter part of the reign of Charles II. Speaking of the Green Ribbon Club, North, in 1740, says: "It was their beast of burden, and called first mobile vulgus, but fell naturally into the contraction of one syllable, and ever since is become proper English." ( Examen, p. 574.)] А disorderly crowd; a promiscuous a emblage of rough, riotous persons; a rabble. "Nane were keener against it than the Glasgow folk, wi' their rabblings and their risings, and their mobs , as they ca' them now-a-days."- Scott : Rob Roy, ch. xxxii. *mob-driver, s. A demagogue, an agitator. "Colonel Mildmay, an old Rumper, and late mob - driver in E ex."-North: Examen, p. 126.