cobblen.¹

/ˈkɒb(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s cobbel, 1500s–1600s coble.

Etymology: Of obscure etymology: apparently related to cob n.¹ in some of its senses. The earliest connection in which it appears is cobbled-stone (if this is not an error): see cobbled adj.²

a. A water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving. In earlier times often identified in use with pebble.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > cobble

boulder-stonea1300

cogglea1400

cobbled stonec1435

cobble?a1500

cobblestone?a1500

boulder1607

cocklestone1677

cobling-stone1681

roll stone1830

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > cobble

cogglea1400

cobbled stonec1435

cobble?a1500

cobblestone?a1500

cocklestone1677

sea-cobble1810

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 768 Hic rudus, a cobylstone.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 206/2 Cobbylstone, caillou.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. xxix. 369 Their slings held cobles round.

1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 16 A Cobble, a Pebble.

1727 Beverley Beek Act 2 Cobbles or pebbles for paving.

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 62 The road is..difficult on account of the cobbles left loose and dry by the washing of the rains.

attributive.1883 Leisure Hour 360 The narrow cobble foot~ways.1889 Q. Rev. Apr. 364 Thick stone or cobble walling.

b. transferred.

ΚΠ

1880 W. Besant & J. Rice Seamy Side in Time II. 83 A cobble of blue-stone..for washing.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 120 Cobble (Penn.), an imperfectly puddled ball which goes to pieces in the squeezer.

2. plural. Coal of the size of small cobble stones.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust

slackc1440

smith coal1466

smithy coal1482

coal dusta1529

panwood1531

smith's coal1578

kirving1599

culm1603

coom1611

small coal1643

smit1670

smut1686

slag1695

duff1724

duff coal1724

small1780

gum1790

stinking coal1803

cobbles1811

nubbling1825

stinkers1841

rubble1844

pea1855

nuts1857

nut coal1861

slap1865

burgee1867

smudge1883

waste1883

treble1901

coal smut1910

gumming1938

nutty slack1953

1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 187 Cobbles..are what we in London should call good round Coals, being the larger lumps picked out of what they call the Sleck, or waste small Coals.

1883 Daily News 20 Sept. 7/5 (advt.) Kitchen Cobbles, 18s.

attributive.1870 ‘Ouida’ Puck I. iii. 52 The ruddy light of the cobble fire.

†3. (See quot. 1570: perhaps not the same word.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]

asseOE

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dullardc1440

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peak1509

dulbert?a1513

doddy-patec1525

noddypolla1529

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dull-head?1534

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grout-head1551

gander1553

skit-brains?1553

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calfa1556

tomfool1565

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Dorbel1593

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Bœotiana1657

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plant-animal1673

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ouphe1694

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Tom Cony1699

mopus1700

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stupe1722

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gobbin?1746

duncehead1749

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John1908

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mook1930

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knobhead1931

dip1932

drip1932

epsilon1932

bohunkus1933

Nimrod1933

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zombie1936

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knot-head1940

schlump1941

jarhead1942

Joe Soap1943

knuckle-head1944

nong1944

lame-brain1945

gobshite1946

rock-head1947

potato head1948

jerko1949

turkey1951

momo1953

poop-head1955

a right one1958

bam1959

nong-nong1959

dickhead1960

dumbo1960

Herbert1960

lamer1961

bampot1962

dipshit1963

bamstick1965

doofus1965

dick1966

pillock1967

zipperhead1967

dipstick1968

thickie1968

poephol1969

yo-yo1970

doof1971

cockhead1972

nully1973

thicko1976

wazzock1976

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

no-brainer1979

jerkwad1980

woodentop1981

dickwad1983

dough ball1983

dickweed1984

bawheid1985

numpty1985

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

knob-end1989

Muppet1989

dingus1997

dicksack1999

eight ball-

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eii/1 A Cobbel, dullard, hæbes, bardus.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

cobble-paved adj.

ΚΠ

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 3/1 The cobble-paved road, bordered by endless crucifixes.

1910 W. J. Locke Simon the Jester xii We crossed the cobble-paved courtyard.

cobble-streeted adj.

ΚΠ

1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iii. xxv Little cobble-streeted shady French towns.

C2.

cobble-hedge n. a fence of boulders.

ΚΠ

1887 H. Caine Son of Hagar I. i. v. 110 To see over the stone cobble-hedge into the field.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cobblen.²

Etymology: < cobble v.¹

A clumsy mending.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > clumsily > act of

patch-up1819

tinker1857

cobble1859

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or unskilful putting together > instance or result of

cloutery1581

clampera1664

tinker1857

cobble1859

kludge1962

1859 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee I. i. 43 (note) This is not a very successful or ingenuous cobble.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

cobblen.³

A local name of the Great Northern Diver, and Red-throated Diver, sea-fowl.

ΚΠ

1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Cobble.

1862 in C. A. Johns Brit. Birds

1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

cobblev.¹

/ˈkɒb(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s–1700s coble.

Etymology: This and the noun cobbler evidently go together etymologically; but the latter, though in its form a derivative of the verb, has as yet been found much earlier. Of the derivation nothing certain is known: the suggestion that the source is an Old French *coubler variant of coupler to couple, join together, is not tenable.

a. transitive. To mend or repair roughly or clumsily; to patch up.

ΘΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)] > clumsily or in makeshift manner

cobble1496

bodge1552

botcha1680

tinker1814

nigger-rig1977

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > put together clumsily or unskilfully > mend clumsily or unskilfully

cobble1496

bodgie1984

1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 274 To the man that coblit the lede in Drummyne ijs.

1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avi Ye cobble and ye clout Holy scripture so about.

1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 27 Men..cobble up old houses.

1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. ii. xx. 118 Some Tinker cobling a piece of Brass.

1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 10 To pawn her china, and to cobble up her family garments.

b. spec. To mend (shoes), esp. roughly or clumsily; to patch. Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > make footwear [verb (transitive)] > repair or renovate

cobble1552

sout1598

translate1724

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cobble shoes, calceamenta resarcire.

1598 Famous Victories Henry V sig. D4^v Oh sir, I haue a great many shooes at home to Cobble.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 19.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 98 A man, that serv'd them in a double Capacity to Teach, and Cobble.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 74 They do condescend to cobble thy shoes, and confine thyself to the vocation for which a man's shoe.

1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) x. 263 Drew studied..philosophy in the intervals of cobbling shoes.

a. To put together or join roughly or clumsily.

ΘΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > patch together

patcha1529

to shuffle up1532

rash1570

bepiece1578

cobble1589

consarcinate1610

to clap upa1616

clap1649

to knock up1683

patchwork1856

to fadge up1863

to knock together1874

fake1879

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > put together clumsily or unskilfully

cloutc1380

patcha1529

clamper1545

botch1561

clumper1586

cobble1589

to stitch up1590

budge1732

fake1879

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. ix. 131 To expresse that which the Greeks could do by cobling many words together.

a1764 R. Lloyd Cobbler Tessington My predecessors often use To coble verse as well as shoes.

1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 125 A pasteboard Tree, cobbled together out of size and waste-paper and water-colours.

1855 A. Manning Old Chelsea Bun-house xviii. 299 To cobble an additional breadth of dimity to the curtain.

b. intransitive or absol.

1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 769 St. Crispin quits, and cobbles for the muse.

a1824 Ld. Byron Dedication xiv, in Wks. (1833) XV. 106 Cobbling at manacles for all mankind.

Compounds

cobble-text n. a preacher who deals clumsily and unskilfully with a text.Apparently an isolated use.

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. xiv. 283 Strolling Methodists, and those sort of coble-texts.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cobblev.²

Etymology: < cobble n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcobble.

transitive.

a. To pave with cobbles.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > pave with specific material

causeya1552

flag1615

causeway1744

metal1806

blind1812

macadamize1823

slab1832

flint1834

pebble1835

asphalt1872

concrete1875

cube1887

cobble1888

block1891

wood-block1908

tarmacadam1910

tarviate1926

tarmac1966

1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 14 A court-yard cobbled in antique fashion.

b. dialect. To pelt with stones.

ΚΠ

1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 16 To cobble with Stones, to throw Stones at any thing.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 34 Cobble, to stone, to pelt with dirt. ‘A good cobbling,’ a severe pelting.

Draft additions December 2018

Chiefly English regional (northern and midlands). (enough) —— to cobble dogs (with): a surplus or abundance of ——.With humorous reference to the idea of having so much of something as to be able to pelt dogs with it (compare sense b and e.g. quot. 1889).

ΚΠ

1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Them carrots is that bad, I wodn't ewse 'em to cobble a dog wi'.]

a1920 in E. Elder Peacock Lincs. Word Bks. (1997) 90/3 Th' farmers says there will be enough potatoes to cobble dogs with.

1946 Lincs. Echo 20 Nov. 3/4 Pineapples..appear to be rather 'pricey' just now... 'People have money to cobble dogs with' was a phrase which one man used when I was discussing this fruit question with him yesterday.

1994 F. Hoyle Home is where Wind Blows ii. 246 I pointed out there were enough books on thermodynamics to cobble dogs with.

2011 @Starchild_Audio 28 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) You ever seen the ancient music store in Saltaire? Harpsichords to cobble dogs with!

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

n.¹?a1500

n.²1859

n.³1802

v.¹1496

v.²1691

单词	cobble
释义	cobblen.¹ /ˈkɒb(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s cobbel, 1500s–1600s coble. Etymology: Of obscure etymology: apparently related to cob n.¹ in some of its senses. The earliest connection in which it appears is cobbled-stone (if this is not an error): see cobbled adj.² 1. a. A water-worn rounded stone, esp. of the size suitable for paving. In earlier times often identified in use with pebble. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > cobble boulder-stonea1300 cogglea1400 cobbled stonec1435 cobble?a1500 cobblestone?a1500 boulder1607 cocklestone1677 cobling-stone1681 roll stone1830 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > cobble cogglea1400 cobbled stonec1435 cobble?a1500 cobblestone?a1500 cocklestone1677 sea-cobble1810 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 768 Hic rudus, a cobylstone. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 206/2 Cobbylstone, caillou. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. xxix. 369 Their slings held cobles round. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 16 A Cobble, a Pebble. 1727 Beverley Beek Act 2 Cobbles or pebbles for paving. 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 62 The road is..difficult on account of the cobbles left loose and dry by the washing of the rains. attributive.1883 Leisure Hour 360 The narrow cobble foot~ways.1889 Q. Rev. Apr. 364 Thick stone or cobble walling. b. transferred. ΚΠ 1880 W. Besant & J. Rice Seamy Side in Time II. 83 A cobble of blue-stone..for washing. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 120 Cobble (Penn.), an imperfectly puddled ball which goes to pieces in the squeezer. 2. plural. Coal of the size of small cobble stones. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust slackc1440 smith coal1466 smithy coal1482 coal dusta1529 panwood1531 smith's coal1578 kirving1599 culm1603 coom1611 small coal1643 smit1670 smut1686 slag1695 duff1724 duff coal1724 small1780 gum1790 stinking coal1803 cobbles1811 nubbling1825 stinkers1841 rubble1844 pea1855 nuts1857 nut coal1861 slap1865 burgee1867 smudge1883 waste1883 treble1901 coal smut1910 gumming1938 nutty slack1953 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 187 Cobbles..are what we in London should call good round Coals, being the larger lumps picked out of what they call the Sleck, or waste small Coals. 1883 Daily News 20 Sept. 7/5 (advt.) Kitchen Cobbles, 18s. attributive.1870 ‘Ouida’ Puck I. iii. 52 The ruddy light of the cobble fire. †3. (See quot. 1570: perhaps not the same word.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 doddypoll1401 dastardc1440 dotterel1440 dullardc1440 wantwit1449 jobardc1475 nollc1475 assheada1500 mulea1500 dull-pate15.. peak1509 dulbert?a1513 doddy-patec1525 noddypolla1529 hammer-head1532 dull-head?1534 capon1542 dolt1543 blockhead1549 cod's head1549 mome1550 grout-head1551 gander1553 skit-brains?1553 blocka1556 calfa1556 tomfool1565 dunce1567 druggard1569 cobble1570 dummel1570 Essex calf1573 jolthead1573 hardhead1576 beetle-head1577 dor-head1577 groutnoll1578 grosshead1580 thickskin1582 noddyship?1589 jobbernowl1592 beetle-brain1593 Dorbel1593 oatmeal-groat1594 loggerhead1595 block-pate1598 cittern-head1598 noddypoop1598 dorbellist1599 numps1599 dor1601 stump1602 ram-head1605 look-like-a-goose1606 ruff1606 clod1607 turf1607 asinego1609 clot-poll1609 doddiea1611 druggle1611 duncecomb1612 ox-head1613 clod-polla1616 dulman1615 jolterhead1620 bullhead1624 dunderwhelpa1625 dunderhead1630 macaroona1631 clod-patea1635 clota1637 dildo1638 clot-pate1640 stupid1640 clod-head1644 stub1644 simpletonian1652 bottle-head1654 Bœotiana1657 vappe1657 lackwit1668 cudden1673 plant-animal1673 dolt-head1679 cabbage head1682 put1688 a piece of wood1691 ouphe1694 dunderpate1697 numbskull1697 leather-head1699 nocky1699 Tom Cony1699 mopus1700 bluff-head1703 clod skull1707 dunny1709 dowf1722 stupe1722 gamphrel1729 gobbin?1746 duncehead1749 half-wit1755 thick-skull1755 jackass1756 woollen-head1756 numbhead1757 beef-head1775 granny1776 stupid-head1792 stunpolla1794 timber-head1794 wether heada1796 dummy1796 noghead1800 staumrel1802 muttonhead1803 num1807 dummkopf1809 tumphya1813 cod's head and shoulders1820 stoopid1823 thick-head1824 gype1825 stob1825 stookiea1828 woodenhead1831 ning-nong1832 log-head1834 fat-head1835 dunderheadism1836 turnip1837 mudhead1838 donkey1840 stupex1843 cabbage1844 morepork1845 lubber-head1847 slowpoke1847 stupiditarian1850 pudding-head1851 cod's head and shoulders1852 putty head1853 moke1855 mullet-head1855 pothead1855 mug1857 thick1857 boodle1862 meathead1863 missing link1863 half-baked1866 lunk1867 turnip-head1869 rummy1872 pumpkin-head1876 tattie1879 chump1883 dully1883 cretin1884 lunkhead1884 mopstick1886 dumbhead1887 peanut head1891 pie-face1891 doughbakea1895 butt-head1896 pinhead1896 cheesehead1900 nyamps1900 box head1902 bonehead1903 chickenhead1903 thickwit1904 cluck1906 boob1907 John1908 mooch1910 nitwit1910 dikkop1913 goop1914 goofus1916 rumdum1916 bone dome1917 moron1917 oik1917 jabroni1919 dumb-bell1920 knob1920 goon1921 dimwit1922 ivory dome1923 stone jug1923 dingleberry1924 gimp1924 bird brain1926 jughead1926 cloth-head1927 dumb1928 gazook1928 mouldwarp1928 ding-dong1929 stupido1929 mook1930 sparrow-brain1930 knobhead1931 dip1932 drip1932 epsilon1932 bohunkus1933 Nimrod1933 dumbass1934 zombie1936 pea-brain1938 knot-head1940 schlump1941 jarhead1942 Joe Soap1943 knuckle-head1944 nong1944 lame-brain1945 gobshite1946 rock-head1947 potato head1948 jerko1949 turkey1951 momo1953 poop-head1955 a right one1958 bam1959 nong-nong1959 dickhead1960 dumbo1960 Herbert1960 lamer1961 bampot1962 dipshit1963 bamstick1965 doofus1965 dick1966 pillock1967 zipperhead1967 dipstick1968 thickie1968 poephol1969 yo-yo1970 doof1971 cockhead1972 nully1973 thicko1976 wazzock1976 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 no-brainer1979 jerkwad1980 woodentop1981 dickwad1983 dough ball1983 dickweed1984 bawheid1985 numpty1985 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 knob-end1989 Muppet1989 dingus1997 dicksack1999 eight ball- 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Eii/1 A Cobbel, dullard, hæbes, bardus. Compounds C1. General attributive. cobble-paved adj. ΚΠ 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Nov. 3/1 The cobble-paved road, bordered by endless crucifixes. 1910 W. J. Locke Simon the Jester xii We crossed the cobble-paved courtyard. cobble-streeted adj. ΚΠ 1909 M. B. Saunders Litany Lane iii. xxv Little cobble-streeted shady French towns. C2. cobble-hedge n. a fence of boulders. ΚΠ 1887 H. Caine Son of Hagar I. i. v. 110 To see over the stone cobble-hedge into the field. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). cobblen.² Etymology: < cobble v.¹ A clumsy mending. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] > clumsily > act of patch-up1819 tinker1857 cobble1859 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > clumsy or unskilful putting together > instance or result of cloutery1581 clampera1664 tinker1857 cobble1859 kludge1962 1859 M. Napier Mem. Life Visct. Dundee I. i. 43 (note) This is not a very successful or ingenuous cobble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). cobblen.³ A local name of the Great Northern Diver, and Red-throated Diver, sea-fowl. ΚΠ 1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. Cobble. 1862 in C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2018). cobblev.¹ /ˈkɒb(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s–1700s coble. Etymology: This and the noun cobbler evidently go together etymologically; but the latter, though in its form a derivative of the verb, has as yet been found much earlier. Of the derivation nothing certain is known: the suggestion that the source is an Old French coubler variant of coupler* to couple, join together, is not tenable. 1. a. transitive. To mend or repair roughly or clumsily; to patch up. ΘΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [verb (transitive)] > clumsily or in makeshift manner cobble1496 bodge1552 botcha1680 tinker1814 nigger-rig1977 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > put together clumsily or unskilfully > mend clumsily or unskilfully cobble1496 bodgie1984 1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 274 To the man that coblit the lede in Drummyne ijs. 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avi Ye cobble and ye clout Holy scripture so about. 1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 27 Men..cobble up old houses. 1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. ii. xx. 118 Some Tinker cobling a piece of Brass. 1879 ‘E. Garrett’ House by Wks. II. 10 To pawn her china, and to cobble up her family garments. b. spec. To mend (shoes), esp. roughly or clumsily; to patch. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > make footwear [verb (transitive)] > repair or renovate cobble1552 sout1598 translate1724 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Cobble shoes, calceamenta resarcire. 1598 Famous Victories Henry V sig. D4^v Oh sir, I haue a great many shooes at home to Cobble. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. i. 19. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 98 A man, that serv'd them in a double Capacity to Teach, and Cobble. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 74 They do condescend to cobble thy shoes, and confine thyself to the vocation for which a man's shoe. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) x. 263 Drew studied..philosophy in the intervals of cobbling shoes. 2. a. To put together or join roughly or clumsily. ΘΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > patch together patcha1529 to shuffle up1532 rash1570 bepiece1578 cobble1589 consarcinate1610 to clap upa1616 clap1649 to knock up1683 patchwork1856 to fadge up1863 to knock together1874 fake1879 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > put together clumsily or unskilfully cloutc1380 patcha1529 clamper1545 botch1561 clumper1586 cobble1589 to stitch up1590 budge1732 fake1879 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. ix. 131 To expresse that which the Greeks could do by cobling many words together. a1764 R. Lloyd Cobbler Tessington My predecessors often use To coble verse as well as shoes. 1828 T. Carlyle Goethe in Foreign Rev. 2 125 A pasteboard Tree, cobbled together out of size and waste-paper and water-colours. 1855 A. Manning Old Chelsea Bun-house xviii. 299 To cobble an additional breadth of dimity to the curtain. b. intransitive or absol. Π 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 769 St. Crispin quits, and cobbles for the muse. a1824 Ld. Byron Dedication xiv, in Wks. (1833) XV. 106 Cobbling at manacles for all mankind. Compounds cobble-text n. a preacher who deals clumsily and unskilfully with a text.Apparently an isolated use. Π 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. xiv. 283 Strolling Methodists, and those sort of coble-texts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022). cobblev.² Etymology: < cobble n.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcobble. transitive. a. To pave with cobbles. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > pave with specific material causeya1552 flag1615 causeway1744 metal1806 blind1812 macadamize1823 slab1832 flint1834 pebble1835 asphalt1872 concrete1875 cube1887 cobble1888 block1891 wood-block1908 tarmacadam1910 tarviate1926 tarmac1966 1888 ‘W. Châteauclair’ Young Seigneur 14 A court-yard cobbled in antique fashion. b. dialect. To pelt with stones. ΚΠ 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 16 To cobble with Stones, to throw Stones at any thing. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 34 Cobble, to stone, to pelt with dirt. ‘A good cobbling,’ a severe pelting. Draft additions December 2018 Chiefly English regional (northern and midlands). (enough) —— to cobble dogs (with): a surplus or abundance of ——.With humorous reference to the idea of having so much of something as to be able to pelt dogs with it (compare sense b and e.g. quot. 1889). ΚΠ 1889 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Them carrots is that bad, I wodn't ewse 'em to cobble a dog wi'.] a1920 in E. Elder Peacock Lincs. Word Bks. (1997) 90/3 Th' farmers says there will be enough potatoes to cobble dogs with. 1946 Lincs. Echo 20 Nov. 3/4 Pineapples..appear to be rather 'pricey' just now... 'People have money to cobble dogs with' was a phrase which one man used when I was discussing this fruit question with him yesterday. 1994 F. Hoyle Home is where Wind Blows ii. 246 I pointed out there were enough books on thermodynamics to cobble dogs with. 2011 @Starchild_Audio 28 Oct. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) You ever seen the ancient music store in Saltaire? Harpsichords to cobble dogs with! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.¹?a1500n.²1859n.³1802v.¹1496v.²1691
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