Bobbery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bobbery is a noun meaning (Anglo-Indian, obsolete) Oh dear! Alas! Good lord.
Meaning
(Anglo-Indian, obsolete) Oh dear! Alas! Good lord.
More Meanings
- (dated) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance.
Example Sentences
bobbery: a disturbance.
They’d’ve kick’d up a rale bubbery, and’ve thrown the fat intu the fire in a jump.
Another and another followed, till, at last, the unwieldy bank, amidst an awful bobbery, swung high and dry on the shelving beach; and out we all sprung, right glad once more to feel ourselves on terra firma.
"Hullo!" said Col. Wingate, of the Dogras, who had just entered the stand, "another Carr-Jones spoof? By Jove, it isn't Carr-Jones; it's Polhill and Ulmun! Oh! bobbery: here, I'll lay a hundred to one in gold mohurs against the griffs!"
Word Forms
- bobberies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brabblement, brabble, rumpus, rout, hurlyburly, hubbuboo.
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