bobblen.¹

Etymology: < bobble v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbobble.

The movement of agitated water.

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > agitated movement

hurla1400

working1575

purl1650

tottling1864

bobble1880

roil1893

wind shadow1909

1880 W. Besant & J. Rice Seamy Side in Time II. 450 Outside Swanage Bay there is always what the jocose captain of the Heather Bell calls a ‘bit of a bobble’.

1884 St. James's Gaz. 22 Mar. 6/2 There'll be a pretty bobble up across tide afore we get under the land.

Draft additions 1993

2. A mistake or error, a failure, a bungle; spec. in Sport, an instance of fumbling or mishandling the ball. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > mistake

bobble1887

fluff1928

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > a bungle

miscarriage1590

bungle1656

bumble1823

boggle1834

muff1867

car wreck1877

mismove1877

miscue1882

muddle1884

bobble1887

mess-up1902

floater1913

bollock1919

fluff1928

balls-up1929

muck-up1930

balls1938

snafu1943

foul-up1944

fuck-up1949

clusterfuck1969

car crash1992

dumpster fire2008

omnishambles2009

1887 J. C. Harris Free Joe & Other Georgian Sketches 155 She jess reads right straight along from cover to cover without a bobble.

1906 N. Lajoie's Official Baseball Guide 33 Some days I may not feel just right and so be off my game, But let me make a bobble and I get it just the same.

1920 Cosmopolitan Aug. 101/2 The Committee on Arrangements had made it Impossible for the Dinner to be a Bobble.

1948 Galveston (Texas) News 14 June 7/2 Vidor got off to a shaky start, committing six bobbles.

1961 Guardian 13 Feb. 16/6 The first bad bobble of the Kennedy Administration has now occurred.

1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c3/1 Michigan took advantage of Michigan State fumbles..when Dan Jilek recovered a Spartan bobble in the end zone.

1985 Dirt Bike Mar. 8/2 He..rode smartly, until he made a bobble and was forced to go for second gear to keep the little engine from bogging.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

bobblen.²

/ˈbɒb(ə)l/

Etymology: diminutive of bob n.¹: see -le suffix 1.

A small woolly ball used as an ornament or trimming. Also attributive.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > bobble

bobble1923

1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 Knitted Wool Jumpers, finished cord and bobbles.

1923 Daily Mail 17 Apr. 1 Trimmed with bobbles of own material arranged in sets.

1927 A. R. Thorndike Slype vi A black gaberdine with bobbles on it.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 76 A stand lamp in a red silk shade with a bobble fringe.

1948 M. Sharp Flowering Thorn ii. i. 55 There's a lot of stuff I think must be rep—it's got bobbles all round the edge.

1968 Guardian 20 Sept. 1/6 A man in an orange bobble hat walked across the hill.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

bobblev.

/ˈbɒb(ə)l/

Etymology: frequentative of bob v.³ (see -le suffix), helped by onomatopoeic suggestiveness: compare also boble v., babble v.², bubble v.

colloquial.

intransitive. To move with continual bobbing. Also transferred and reflexive.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > bob

dance1563

boba1794

bobble1812

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (reflexive)] > bob

bobble1812

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > bob

bob1685

bobble1960

1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. xxxvi. 18 Horribly bobbling round and straining hard for Mag.

1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. vi. 316 The ..Ship..was comfortably bobbling herself about at Spithead.

1896 W. Park Game of Golf x. 202 It is absolutely essential that a putting-green be firm and smooth, and the turf close and short, so that the ball will roll on it and not ‘bobble’ or jump, as it certainly will if the turf be brushy and uneven.

1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 18 He never even bobbled; he knocked Uncle Buck down and then caught him..without even stopping.

1960 I. Cross Backward Sex iii. 79 The stretch and wriggle of her shoulders bobbled her body.

Derivatives

ˈbobbling adj.

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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > bobbing

bobbing1681

dancing1697

subsaltatory1831

bobbling1892

abob1908

1892 Daily News 20 Sept. 6/4 If they must shoot something, let them pop away at bottles..in a bobbling sea.

Draft additions 1993

intransitive and transitive. To make a mistake, to bungle or botch (something); spec. in Sport, to mishandle or fumble (the ball), esp. in taking a catch. Cf. bobble n.¹ Additions 2. U.S.

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society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [verb (transitive)] > bungle or fumble

muff1846

mull1862

fluff1902

bobble1908

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > bungle

bungle1549

to put the wrong foot before1590

bebotch1609

to put one's foot in (also into) it1796

mess1823

boggle1853

to make a muff of oneself1884

duff1890

bobble1908

miscue1941

blow1943

to make a porridge (of)1969

sheg1981

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle

botch1530

bungle1530

mumble1588

muddle1605

mash1642

bumble?1719

to fall through ——1726

fuck1776

blunder1805

to make a mull of1821

bitch1823

mess1823

to make a mess of1834

smudge1864

to muck up1875

boss1887

to make balls of1889

duff1890

foozle1892

bollocks1901

fluff1902

to make a muck of1903

bobble1908

to ball up1911

jazz1914

boob1915

to make a hash of1920

muff1922

flub1924

to make a hat of1925

to ass up1932

louse1934

screw1938

blow1943

to foul up1943

eff1945

balls1947

to make a hames of1947

to arse up1951

to fuck up1967

dork1969

sheg1981

bodge1984

1908 Dial. Notes 3 292 Bobble, v.i. to make a slight turn or twist from a direct or straight line, wabble; hence, to make a break or mistake. ‘He can't plough a furrow without bobbling from one side of the row to the other.’

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §644/17 Make a bungling play, blob, bobble, bonehead.

1959 F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) xviii. 192 We didn't fall but we bobbled on top of the table as we went over, causing an uncertainty to this finishing step which followed.

1971 L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports i. 31 He bobbles, drops or misses the ball.

1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c7/2 On the next series, Nebraska fullback Gary Higgs bobbled a pitchout.

1977 New Yorker 17 Oct. 178/2 The simplest plot points are bobbled, and when there's mayhem, it isn't clear who the participants are, or what the outcome is.

1984 Miami Herald 6 Apr. 3 f/2 Got Dale Murphy to hit a one-hopper that Juan Samuel bobbled.

Draft additions December 2004

bobblehead n. (in full bobblehead doll) a figurine (often a caricature of a famous person) with a disproportionately large head mounted on a spring so that it bobs up and down.

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1964 Washington Post 9 Oct. e10 (advt.) Free Redskin Bobble Head Dolls for the Kids!!

1986 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 16 Mar. 1 I like the home team, the ‘crucial’ series, ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’, bugle calls and bobblehead dolls, bedsheet banners and squeeze bunts.

2002 Entertainm. Weekly 20 Sept. 24/2 Nowadays, a measure of celebrity can be summed up in five words: Do you have a bobblehead?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

n.¹1880

n.²1923

v.1812

单词	bobble
释义	bobblen.¹ Etymology: < bobble v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbobble. The movement of agitated water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [noun] > agitated movement hurla1400 working1575 purl1650 tottling1864 bobble1880 roil1893 wind shadow1909 1880 W. Besant & J. Rice Seamy Side in Time II. 450 Outside Swanage Bay there is always what the jocose captain of the Heather Bell calls a ‘bit of a bobble’. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 22 Mar. 6/2 There'll be a pretty bobble up across tide afore we get under the land. Draft additions 1993 2. A mistake or error, a failure, a bungle; spec. in Sport, an instance of fumbling or mishandling the ball. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > mistake bobble1887 fluff1928 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working > a bungle miscarriage1590 bungle1656 bumble1823 boggle1834 muff1867 car wreck1877 mismove1877 miscue1882 muddle1884 bobble1887 mess-up1902 floater1913 bollock1919 fluff1928 balls-up1929 muck-up1930 balls1938 snafu1943 foul-up1944 fuck-up1949 clusterfuck1969 car crash1992 dumpster fire2008 omnishambles2009 1887 J. C. Harris Free Joe & Other Georgian Sketches 155 She jess reads right straight along from cover to cover without a bobble. 1906 N. Lajoie's Official Baseball Guide 33 Some days I may not feel just right and so be off my game, But let me make a bobble and I get it just the same. 1920 Cosmopolitan Aug. 101/2 The Committee on Arrangements had made it Impossible for the Dinner to be a Bobble. 1948 Galveston (Texas) News 14 June 7/2 Vidor got off to a shaky start, committing six bobbles. 1961 Guardian 13 Feb. 16/6 The first bad bobble of the Kennedy Administration has now occurred. 1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c3/1 Michigan took advantage of Michigan State fumbles..when Dan Jilek recovered a Spartan bobble in the end zone. 1985 Dirt Bike Mar. 8/2 He..rode smartly, until he made a bobble and was forced to go for second gear to keep the little engine from bogging. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). bobblen.² /ˈbɒb(ə)l/ Etymology: diminutive of bob n.¹: see -le suffix 1. A small woolly ball used as an ornament or trimming. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > ornamental trimmings > [noun] > bobble bobble1923 1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 Knitted Wool Jumpers, finished cord and bobbles. 1923 Daily Mail 17 Apr. 1 Trimmed with bobbles of own material arranged in sets. 1927 A. R. Thorndike Slype vi A black gaberdine with bobbles on it. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 76 A stand lamp in a red silk shade with a bobble fringe. 1948 M. Sharp Flowering Thorn ii. i. 55 There's a lot of stuff I think must be rep—it's got bobbles all round the edge. 1968 Guardian 20 Sept. 1/6 A man in an orange bobble hat walked across the hill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018). bobblev. /ˈbɒb(ə)l/ Etymology: frequentative of bob v.³ (see -le suffix), helped by onomatopoeic suggestiveness: compare also boble v., babble v.², bubble v. colloquial. intransitive. To move with continual bobbing. Also transferred and reflexive. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > bob dance1563 boba1794 bobble1812 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (reflexive)] > bob bobble1812 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > bob bob1685 bobble1960 1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. xxxvi. 18 Horribly bobbling round and straining hard for Mag. 1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. vi. 316 The ..Ship..was comfortably bobbling herself about at Spithead. 1896 W. Park Game of Golf x. 202 It is absolutely essential that a putting-green be firm and smooth, and the turf close and short, so that the ball will roll on it and not ‘bobble’ or jump, as it certainly will if the turf be brushy and uneven. 1942 W. Faulkner Go down, Moses & Other Stories 18 He never even bobbled; he knocked Uncle Buck down and then caught him..without even stopping. 1960 I. Cross Backward Sex iii. 79 The stretch and wriggle of her shoulders bobbled her body. Derivatives ˈbobbling adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > bobbing bobbing1681 dancing1697 subsaltatory1831 bobbling1892 abob1908 1892 Daily News 20 Sept. 6/4 If they must shoot something, let them pop away at bottles..in a bobbling sea. Draft additions 1993 intransitive and transitive. To make a mistake, to bungle or botch (something); spec. in Sport, to mishandle or fumble (the ball), esp. in taking a catch. Cf. bobble n.¹ Additions 2. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [verb (transitive)] > bungle or fumble muff1846 mull1862 fluff1902 bobble1908 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > do something unskilfully [verb (intransitive)] > bungle bungle1549 to put the wrong foot before1590 bebotch1609 to put one's foot in (also into) it1796 mess1823 boggle1853 to make a muff of oneself1884 duff1890 bobble1908 miscue1941 blow1943 to make a porridge (of)1969 sheg1981 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > be unskilled in [verb (transitive)] > bungle botch1530 bungle1530 mumble1588 muddle1605 mash1642 bumble?1719 to fall through ——1726 fuck1776 blunder1805 to make a mull of1821 bitch1823 mess1823 to make a mess of1834 smudge1864 to muck up1875 boss1887 to make balls of1889 duff1890 foozle1892 bollocks1901 fluff1902 to make a muck of1903 bobble1908 to ball up1911 jazz1914 boob1915 to make a hash of1920 muff1922 flub1924 to make a hat of1925 to ass up1932 louse1934 screw1938 blow1943 to foul up1943 eff1945 balls1947 to make a hames of1947 to arse up1951 to fuck up1967 dork1969 sheg1981 bodge1984 1908 Dial. Notes 3 292 Bobble, v.i. to make a slight turn or twist from a direct or straight line, wabble; hence, to make a break or mistake. ‘He can't plough a furrow without bobbling from one side of the row to the other.’ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §644/17 Make a bungling play, blob, bobble, bonehead. 1959 F. Astaire Steps in Time (1960) xviii. 192 We didn't fall but we bobbled on top of the table as we went over, causing an uncertainty to this finishing step which followed. 1971 L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports i. 31 He bobbles, drops or misses the ball. 1974 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) 13 Oct. c7/2 On the next series, Nebraska fullback Gary Higgs bobbled a pitchout. 1977 New Yorker 17 Oct. 178/2 The simplest plot points are bobbled, and when there's mayhem, it isn't clear who the participants are, or what the outcome is. 1984 Miami Herald 6 Apr. 3 f/2 Got Dale Murphy to hit a one-hopper that Juan Samuel bobbled. Draft additions December 2004 bobblehead n. (in full bobblehead doll) a figurine (often a caricature of a famous person) with a disproportionately large head mounted on a spring so that it bobs up and down. ΚΠ 1964 Washington Post 9 Oct. e10 (advt.) Free Redskin Bobble Head Dolls for the Kids!! 1986 Los Angeles Times (Electronic ed.) 16 Mar. 1 I like the home team, the ‘crucial’ series, ‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game’, bugle calls and bobblehead dolls, bedsheet banners and squeeze bunts. 2002 Entertainm. Weekly 20 Sept. 24/2 Nowadays, a measure of celebrity can be summed up in five words: Do you have a bobblehead? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.¹1880n.²1923v.1812
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bobblev.

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