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▪ I. clobber, n.1|ˈklɒbə(r)|
[Etymology uncertain. In Lowland Sc. clobber, clabber is given as ‘mud, clay, dirt’, app. a. Gaelic clabar in same sense: but this is hardly likely to be the word: cf. the vb.]
A black paste used by cobblers to fill up and conceal cracks in the leather of boots and shoes.
18..Dickens Househ. Words XIX. 41 (Hoppe) If there are crevices and breaks in an old pair of shoes..he insinuates into them a dose of clobber, which seems to be a mixture of ground cinders and paste.
▪ II. ˈclobber, n.2 slang.
[Origin unknown.]
a. Clothes.
1879Macm. Mag. Oct. 501/2, I took the rattler to Forest Hill, and touched for..a kipsy full of clobber (clothes). 1901G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound iii. 292 Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again. 1906E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands x. 124 It's Bland 'Olt's wicked woman straight from ther halls of gilded vice, with all her clobber on. 1908Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 4/4 All just the common sort, in their new summer clobber. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 10/4 Every fine Sunday morning all my war-time clobber goes out on the clothes-line. 1959Observer 22 Mar. 25 To pay for the kiddies' clobber.
b. Equipment; ‘gear’; rubbish.
1890Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 31 They call a man a robber if 'e stuffs 'is marching clobber With the..loot. 1925in Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words. 1951A. Baron R. Hogarth 166, I gets off a bus in Old Street, all loaded up with clobber. 1965Lancet 20 Nov. 1070/2 Every cellar stockroom..is packed tight with fantastic collections of clobber and junk.
Hence clobber v.2 trans., to dress or ‘tog’ up.
1887J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail 9, I used to clobber myself up and go to the concert-rooms. 1889E. Sampson Tales of Fancy 14, I must go there decently clobbered... I want you to go with me..to buy a cheap suit. 1934Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 9/4 The visitor, it seems, was clobbered up like an ordinary Aussie.
▪ III. clobber, v.1|ˈklɒbə(r)|
[Of uncertain origin: app. connected with clobber n.1 But it has the appearance of an onomatopœic word of frequentative form: cf. slobber, slubber, also clamper to botch, tinker, or patch up.]
1. trans. To patch up, cobble.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 369 The best black suits are to be ‘clobbered’ up. 1872Jewish Chron. 10 May 80/2 ‘Clobbering’—a technical term for ‘renovating’ old garments. 1957Lloyd P. Gartner Jewish Immigrant (1960) 83 The second-hand clothing..dealers..sent out the garments they purchased to be ‘clobbered’ (renovated) and resold.
2. To add enamelled decoration to (porcelain, esp. blue-and-white). So ˈclobbered ppl. a.; ˈclobbering vbl. n.1
1889Cent. Dict., Clobbered china. 1900F. Litchfield Pott. & Porc. 114 There is a description of Chinese known as ‘Clobbered’,..over-painted with..ornament..and sold for decorated Oriental china. 1910R. L. Hobson Worcester Porcelain 61 Clobbering was freely practised in Holland first and England afterwards from the early part of the 18th century. 1922R. Drane's Coll. Old Worc. Porcelain 32 Clobbered pieces. 471 An Oriental Tea Jar... When this was brought to Europe it was a plain blue and white object.
Hence ˈclobberer, (a) a patcher of clothes and shoes; (b) one who adds enamelled decoration to porcelain.
1864Times 3 Nov. 6/6 The duty of the clobberer is to patch, to sew up, and to restore as far as possible the garments to their pristine appearance. 1866Lond. Rev. 27 Oct. 459/2 There are various epithets for shoemakers..there are welters, repairers, clobberers, clickers. 1915R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery II. 261 The clobberer became an established institution, and he was at work in London in the last century.
▪ IV. ˈclobber, v.3 slang.
[Origin unknown.]
To hit; to thrash or ‘beat up’; to defeat, shoot down; to reprimand or criticize severely. So ˈclobbering vbl. n.2
1944Gen 18 Nov. 9/1 Did anyone clobber any [sc. flying bombs]? 1948Partridge Dict. Forces' Slang 43 Clobbering, (a) heavy bombing. (Air Force). 1949in Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 110/1 The Wolverines [football team] clobbered their opponents 42 to 3. 1951M. Shulman Many Loves (1953) 206 ‘Poor loser!’ they kept yelling as they clobbered me. 1956J. E. Johnson Wing Leader iii. 31 Six of the Spits had cannon stoppages, otherwise more Huns would have been clobbered. 1956Wallis & Blair Thunder Above (1959) xiii. 134 The Press sure clobbered Roger Law... Don't know why I got off so easy. 1959J. Braine Vodi xii. 165 The police gave them such a clobbering that he never had any trouble again. 1959‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder x. 114 He must have seen me clobber Leeming when he dived for the brief-case. 1969Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 1/4 Companies singled out for a special clobbering are the betting and gaming companies. Ibid. 3/8 Butlin's is heavily clobbered by the increase in Selective Employment Tax. |