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单词 bobble
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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.
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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).
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