Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To bob up and down.
- v. To lose one's grip on (a ball, for example) momentarily.
- n. A mistake or blunder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To bob up and down; move with continual bobbing.
- n. The movement of agitated water.
- In golf, to run unevenly on a green: said of a ball.
Wiktionary
- n. A furry ball attached on top of a hat
- n. UK Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail)
- n. informal A pill (ball formed on surface of fabric, as on laundered clothes).
- v. To bob up and down.
- v. US To make a mistake in.
- v. to roll slowly
WordNet 3.0
- n. the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
- v. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
Etymologies
- From bob1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fortunately, we got a bobble from a great center fielder.”
American League - Major League Baseball - Boston vs. Cleveland
“Mr. Baker, I think you meant "bauble shop", but I like "bobble" better.”
Sunday Op/Ed: Don’t Put the Chihuly Museum at Seattle Center « PubliCola
“Also the thumb support 'bobble' has become higher.”
“I was going to say the same thing others have said – she looks like a bobble-head on the cover.”
“They put a large V on their shirts that season, claiming to get around the objections of the KNVB that the V stood for Volendam, and released a compilation album of the station's local favourites with a team picture on the cover, including the goalkeeper wearing a Selwyn Froggitt bobble hat.”
The Guardian: Which football teams have been referenced on album covers? | The Knowledge
“With the second he, like Ronaldo, had the excuse of a bobble.”
The Guardian: Bosnia aim to get it pitch perfect against Portugal | Jonathan Wilson
“Cristiano Ronaldo was defeated by a bobble after being set through by a Nani flick and Helder Postiga flashed a shot on the turn just wide as a free-kick bobbled through a crowd of players to him.”
The Guardian: Bosnia aim to get it pitch perfect against Portugal | Jonathan Wilson
“This was a good night not to be consigned to the bench, swathed in quilted gear and bobble hats.”
“It involves dappled light, pinging music, bobble-hats, toddler language ( "You can feel my boobydoobyboos"), pastel tones and a sexual relationship between a resident and a carer that is, it's suggested, liberating but, looks, despite versatile turns from Louis Lovett and Michele Moran, improbable and exploitative.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bobble’.
-
Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
-
Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Bob
He's everywhere.
bob, Bob, bobolink, nabob, bobbing, apple bobbing, Bob Dylan, ragtag and bobtail, plumb bob, kabob, discombobulate, earbob and 106 more...
-
CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 125 more...
-
[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
-
ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
-
-bles
fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
-
Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
-
Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
-
Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
-
The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
-
Baseball words
error, single, double, triple, home run, hit, double play, triple play, base hit, inning, extras, ball and 25 more...
-
British variant
motorway, masthead, conk, nobble, bobble, jumper, stoat, minder, banger, boot, foolscap, bubble and squeak and 14 more...
-
you write such pretty words
words that are pretty.
sparkle, shimmer, haze, sunlight, starlight, mist, illuminate, ocean, sunrise, sunset, serendipity, orchard and 84 more...
-
stragglers
double consonant -le verbs
hobble, straggle, huddle, hassle, addle, tattle, stipple, tipple, fiddle, peddle, coddle, cobble and 59 more...
-
creagr's Words
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bobble.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.