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▪ I. † ˈbobber1 Obs.
[f. bob v.1, v.2 + -er1.]
1. A deceiver.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 6 a, Those persones he pronounced woorthie to be accounpted deceytful, bobbers of menne, whiche by fraude dyd make eche manne beleue, etc.
2. A mocker, one who taunts.
1576Newton tr. Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 160 The Cholericke are bitter taunters, dry bobbers, nipping gibers, and scornefull mockers of others.
▪ II. bobber2|ˈbɒbə(r)|
[(Two or more words) f. bob v.3, v.4 + -er1.]
1. He who or that which bobs up and down or in and out; spec. a float used in angling, also the bob-fly (see bob v.3 4).
1837Lockhart Life Scott (1839) IX. 247 To catch one trout..with the fly and another with the bobber. 1881Harper's Mag. Oct. 654 You can see the bobber dance upon the ripples.
2. One who bobs for eels. (In East Anglia called babber.)
1882Blackw. Mag. Jan. 99 The bunch of worms strung on worsted with which the eel-babber works. 1883[see bob n.1 7].
3. dial. and slang. A fellow-workman, mate, or ‘chum’. Cf. Bob n.7
1860W. White Round Wrekin 34 Bobber being the equivalent of chum. 1871Daily News 19 May, As he sells these, the buyers or their ‘bobbers’ carry them off.
▪ III. bobber3|ˈbɒbə(r)|
[f. bob v.6]
One who polishes articles on a bob or polishing-disc.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 53 Locksmith, Bellhanger. Bobber and Grinder. 1906Daily Chron. 23 Apr. 10/6 Good emery bobber: must be used to cycle work. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §237 Emery bobber (foundry). Ibid. 238 Bobber and polisher.
▪ IV. bobber4|ˈbɒbə(r)|
[f. bob v.7]
One who rides on a bob-sleigh.
1904Windsor Mag. Jan. 248/2 Thus spoiling many a race and importing many a risk to the bobber. 1906Tribune 16 Jan. 3/7 Curlers and skaters have been enjoying themselves, but skiers and bobbers..are grumbling.
▪ V. bobber5|ˈbɒbə(r)|
[perh. f. bob n.8 (see quot. 1921).]
In full fish bobber: a workman who unloads fish from trawlers and drifters to the quay. So ˈbobbing vbl. n.3, working as a ‘bobber’.
1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §745 Bobber, fish bobber (East Coast term which originated when fish porters were paid 1s. per hour). 1934‘Taffrail’ Seventy North ix. §1. 185 Men called ‘bobbers’, hired by the owners, unloaded all the fish in baskets. 1959Times 20 Jan. 6/3 The fish bobbers—men who unload trawlers. Ibid., The bobbers are members of the General and Municipal Workers' Union. 1962J. Tunstall Fishermen iii. 81 Bobbing..can easily be done by men in their fifties. |