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Definitions and meaning of cobbler

cobbler

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒblə/, /ˈkɒbələ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑblɚ/, /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə, (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: cob‧bler

Etymology 1

From Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns), but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler.

Sense 2 (“sheep left to the end to be sheared”) is a pun on cobbler’s last (“tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes”); while sense 3 (“clumsy workman”) is derived from cobble +‎ -er: see above.

Noun

cobbler (plural cobblers)

1. A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

   Synonyms: (obsolete, one sense) botcher, (India, archaic) chuckler, (Britain, slang, obsolete) lad of wax, shoemender, (Northern England, Scotland) souter, (Ireland, dated) waxie, (Britain, slang, obsolete) waxy
2. (Australia, New Zealand, agriculture, slang) A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
3. (obsolete) A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

Alternative forms

• cobler (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• cobbler's punch
• cobbling

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See also

• gentle craft

Etymology 2

Uncertain; it has been suggested that the word derives from cobbler’s punch (“warm drink made of beer with added spirit, sugar, and spices”), or because the drink patches up (“repairs; makes better”) the drinker.

Noun

cobbler (plural cobblers)

1. (US, alcoholic beverages) An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.

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Etymology 3

From cobble (“rounded stone used for paving roads, cobblestone”) +‎ -er (occupational suffix). Cobble is from Late Middle English, from cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”) + -le, -el (suffix forming diminutives). The further etymology of cobbe is uncertain; it is perhaps a variant of cop (“the top of something (a house, tower, mountain, tree, etc.); crown or top of the head; the head”), from Old English cop, copp (“summit, top; cup, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, orb; knoll; hilltop, summit; crown or top of the head; head; skull; bowl; container, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object; knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve; an arch, vault”). However, this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary.

Noun

cobbler (plural cobblers)

1. A roadworker who lays cobbles.

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Etymology 4

Probably a variant of or related to cob, cobb (“stony fruit kernel; nut used in the game of conkers, conker; game of conkers”), perhaps from Middle English cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”): see further at etymology 3.

Noun

cobbler (plural cobblers)

1. (British, dialectal)
   1. The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.
   2. (games) Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”)

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Etymology 5

Origin unknown.

Noun

cobbler (plural cobblers)

1. Used as a name for various animals.
   1. (Australia) Also estuary cobbler:
      1. The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.
      2. The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.
   2. (British)
      1. Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.
      2. Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
   3. (US) Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.
2. (usually in the plural, slang) A police officer.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:police officer

Related terms

• cobblerfish

Translations

Etymology 6

Uncertain. First attested in 1859; various suggested etymologies include:

• the top having the appearance of cobblestone rather than smooth rolled-out pastry;
• Middle English cobeler, some type of wooden bowl, dish, or vessel (mentioned in a 1385 list of wooden vessels)
• the dish having been cobbled together, as it is suggested it may have originated in the British colonies in America among settlers who lacked ingredients and tools to make make things like traditional suet pudding and so fit together pieces of other pastry-topping materials.

Noun

cobbler (plural cobblers)

1. (US) Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.

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See also

• dump cake

Etymology 7

From cobbler's awls as rhyming slang for balls.

Noun

cobbler (plural cobblers)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly in the plural) A testicle.

References

Further reading

• shoemaking on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cobbler (food) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cobbler (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cnidoglanis macrocephalus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Cnidoglanis macrocephalus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Cnidoglanis macrocephalus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• South Australian cobbler on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Gymnapistes marmoratus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Gymnapistes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pangasius pangasius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Pangasius pangasius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Pangasius pangasius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Condica sutor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Condica sutor on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Condica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• clobber