Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who mends or makes boots and shoes.
- n. Archaic One who is clumsy at work; a bungler.
- n. A deep-dish fruit pie with a thick top crust.
- n. An iced drink made of wine or liqueur, sugar, and citrus fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who cobbles, mends, or patches; especially, one who mends boots and shoes.
- n. Hence A clumsy workman; one who works in a clumsy, slipshod fashion.
- n. A summer drink to be sucked through a straw, made by shaking up together, in a large glass, pounded ice, wine, sugar, slices of orange, pineapple, etc.
- n. A fruit pie baked in a large deep dish or a pot lined with thick paste: named according to the kind of fruit used: as, an apple cobbler; a peach cobbler.
- n. The last sheep in the pen in sheep-shearing time, usually one that: is hardest to shear.
- n. A small fish, Fundulus heteroclitus, found abundantly along the eastern coast of the United States.
- n. The thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris, a fish with long filamentous dorsal and anal rays.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who repairs shoes.
- n. A kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, that lacks a base crust.
- n. slang, usually plural A police officer.
- n. An alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with sugar and lemon juice.
- n. obsolete A clumsy workman.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A mender of shoes.
- n. A clumsy workman.
- n. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit
- n. a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit
- n. a person who makes or repairs shoes
Etymologies
- Middle English cobeler.Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Feel free to substitute one for the other in order to make this Dewberry Cobbler because whatever you call them, these dark purple berries are just coming into season and this easy to make cobbler is a great way to enjoy them.”
“The topping for this cobbler is similar in consistency to a cookie dough.”
“Plus the sugar free peach cobbler is a rare treat for a diabetic like me.”
Black Bear Diner And The Thrice Cooked, Twice Eaten Steak Of Disappointment - The Consumerist
“And don’t get me wrong — a blackberry cobbler is nothing to sniff at.”
“When I first saw the floral banded wobbegong it looked similar to the species many fishers know as the cobbler wobbegong (Sutorectus tentaculatus), but on closer inspection there were some very obvious differences that help define it as a separate species.”
“And if a cobbler is the vehicle I need to learn to better enjoy a fruit, then I'll gladly make the effort.”
“I don't know if it would be properly called a cobbler, but I sliced up peaches, topped them with a mixture of butter, oats and brown sugar and then baked it.”
“A cobbler is a fruit base topped with spoonfuls of sweet biscuit or scone dough.”
“A cobbler is a baked fruit dish of fruit topped with a sweetened biscuit topping.”
“Next to the cobbler was a stuffed plum with apricot-ginger compote.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cobbler’.
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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Occupational Surnames
English surnames based upon an occupation. As one would expect, many of the occupations that lent themselves to these surnames no longer exist, and variant spellings abound.
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sheep and goats
sheep and more sheep and some
slang for sheep,films that feature sheep ,have you heard of sheeple?
and goatsammon, ancon, argali, bharal, burrel, burrell, burhel, burrhel, bighorn, billy, blackface, broadtail and 144 more...
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Everything sheep, from Artiodactyla to zodiac.
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Do I dare to eat a peach?
or Pandowdies: pie-like fruit desserts.
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• How to make a worker cry (derogativ...
What?! And I'm supposed to pay for your lousy work, you... you...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (C)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
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sputnik
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
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Tweets
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hernesheir The last sheep to be sheared. Dec 13, 2011
john “A spoon pie (more like a fruit stew with dumplings), in which biscuit dough is dropped onto the fruit before baking. The consensus is that the dish got its name because the lumps of cooked dough resembled cobblestones.”
Ochef.com, Cobbler, Crisp, Crumble, Grunt, Slump—You Get the Picture Apr 6, 2010
knitandpurl South Australian cobbler: a fish with poisonous dorsal fins Mar 27, 2010
likeflannel emily says (10:28 PM):
who's last name is shoemaker? thats a dumb name.
janell says (10:28 PM):
cobbler?
janell says (10:29 PM):
is that a shoe maker?
emily says (10:29 PM):
thats a pie.
lol.
janell says (10:29 PM):
no, i think it's a shoe maker too
emily says (10:29 PM):
mmm...i think its a pie. lol.
janell says (10:29 PM):
well you think.
janell says (10:30 PM):
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cobbler
definition one!
your pie is number two!
emily says (10:30 PM):
NO!
janell says (10:30 PM):
FUCK YOU, DICTIONARY WIN
I R WINRAR
emily says (10:30 PM):
PIE IS ALWAYS #1 IN MY HEART!
janell says (10:31 PM):
IF THERE IS PIE IN YOUR HEART YOU HAVE BAD ARTERIES.
AND PROBABLY SHOULDN'T EAT PIE.
emily says (10:31 PM):
WHATEVER!
MMM PIE!
janell says (10:31 PM):
MMMM SHOEMAKERS
THEY HAVE MUSCLES AND CAN OCCASIONALLY BE ATTRACTIVE.
IF THEY STILL EXIST.
janell says (10:32 PM):
WHICH, I'M SURE THEY DO.
emily says (10:32 PM):
they do.
fancy shoes are handmade.
or, the original model of a fancy shoe is handmade.
janell says (10:32 PM):
...remember those "fancy" shoes that kyle and whatshisface made in history out of ductape?
emily says (10:33 PM):
hahahah...
yeah. Sep 8, 2009