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▪ I. ˈbobble, v. colloq.|ˈbɒb(ə)l|
[frequentative of bob v.3 (see -le), helped by onomatopœic suggestiveness: cf. also boble, babble, bubble.]
intr. To move with continual bobbing. Also transf. and refl. So ˈbobbling ppl. a.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. i. xxxvi, Hobbling, bobbling round, and straining hard for Mag. 1836T. Hook G. Gurney III. vi. 316 The ..Ship..was comfortably bobbling herself about at Spithead. 1892Daily News 20 Sept. 6/4 If they must shoot something, let them pop away at bottles..in a bobbling sea. 1896W. 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. 1942W. Faulkner Go Down, Moses 18 He never even bobbled; he knocked Uncle Buck down and then caught him..without even stopping. 1960I. Cross Backward Sex iii. 79 The stretch and wriggle of her shoulders bobbled her body.
Add:2. intr. and trans. 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 2. U.S.
1908Dialect Notes III. 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.’ 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §644/17 Make a bungling play, blob, bobble, bonehead. 1959F. 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. 1971L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports i. 31 He bobbles, drops or misses the ball. 1974Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 13 Oct. c7/2 On the next series, Nebraska fullback Gary Higgs bobbled a pitchout. 1977New 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. 1984Miami Herald 6 Apr. 3f/2 Got Dale Murphy to hit a one-hopper that Juan Samuel bobbled.
▸ 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.
1964Washington Post 9 Oct. e10 (advt.) Free Redskin *Bobble Head Dolls for the Kids!! 1986Los 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. 2002Entertainm. Weekly 20 Sept. 24/2 Nowadays, a measure of celebrity can be summed up in five words: Do you have a bobblehead?
▪ II. ˈbobble, n.1
[f. prec. vb.]
The movement of agitated water.
1880Besant & Rice Seamy Side xxviii. 236 Outside Swanage Bay there is always what the jocose captain of the Heather Bell calls a ‘bit of a bobble’. 1884St. James's Gaz. 22 Mar. 6/2 There'll be a pretty bobble up across tide afore we get under the land.
Add:2. A mistake or error, a failure, a bungle; spec. in Sport, an instance of fumbling or mishandling the ball. U.S.
1887J. C. Harris Free Joe 155 She jess reads right straight along from cover to cover without a bobble. 1906N. 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. 1920Cosmopolitan Aug. 101/2 The Committee on Arrangements had made it Impossible for the Dinner to be a Bobble. 1948Galveston (Texas) News 14 June 7/2 Vidor got off to a shaky start, committing six bobbles. 1961Guardian 13 Feb. 16/6 The first bad bobble of the Kennedy Administration has now occurred. 1974Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 13 Oct. c3/1 Michigan took advantage of Michigan State fumbles..when Dan Jilek recovered a Spartan bobble in the end zone. 1985Dirt 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.
▪ III. bobble, n.2|ˈbɒb(ə)l|
[dimin. of bob n.1: see -le 1.]
A small woolly ball used as an ornament or trimming. Also attrib.
1923Daily Mail 13 Feb. 1 Knitted Wool Jumpers, finished cord and bobbles. Ibid. 17 Apr. 1 Trimmed with bobbles of own material arranged in sets. 1927Russell Thorndike Slype vi, A black gaberdine with bobbles on it. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 76 A stand lamp in a red silk shade with a bobble fringe. 1948M. 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. 1968Guardian 20 Sept. 1/6 A man in an orange bobble hat walked across the hill. |