释义 |
▪ I. cobbling, vbl. n.|ˈkɒblɪŋ| [f. cobble v.1 + -ing1.] The action of the verb cobble, q.v.
1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 44 Their old former occupation of husbandry, cobbling, cookery. a1764Lloyd Cobbler Tessington (R.), Cobbling extends a thousand ways, Some cobble shoes, some cobble plays. 1883J. Parker Tyne Ch. 306 A trumpery question of social cobbling. ▪ II. ˈcobbling, ppl. a. [f. cobble v.1 + -ing2.] That cobbles (see the vb.); bungling, clumsy.
1575Fulke Confut. Doctr. Purgatory (1577) 250 The cobling counterfecter of those epistles. 1587Harrison Eng. ii. i. (1877) i. 34 When such cookes & cobling shifters shall be remooued. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler 32 My Cobling hand. |