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bobies, bobbers noun plural peas 19-20. Compare bubbies etymology: possibly a development from Romany bob ‘a bean’; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants and attested by Galloway Tinkler-Gypsies; form bobbers collected by Joseph F G S Lucas from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Smart & Crofton (1875) collected from English Gypsies the forms Bō'bi, Bóbbi n., Pea (boobi) from the same source they also record Bauro bobi as ‘Broad bean’ − which would translate from Romany as ‘great’ or ‘big pea’].