clobbern.1
/ˈklɒbə/, U.S. /ˈklɑbər/ A black paste used by cobblers to fill up and conceal cracks in the leather of boots and shoes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > materials > other substances
heelball1774
clobber1853
1853 C. Dickens St. Crispin in Househ. Words 26 Mar. 79/1 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
clobbern.2
slang.
a. Clothes.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun]
clothesc888
hattersOE
shroudc1000
weedOE
shrouda1122
clothc1175
hatteringa1200
atourc1220
back-clout?c1225
habit?c1225
clothingc1275
cleadinga1300
dubbinga1300
shroudinga1300
attirec1300
coverturec1300
suitc1325
apparel1330
buskingc1330
farec1330
harness1340
tire1340
backs1341
geara1350
apparelmentc1374
attiringa1375
vesturec1385
heelinga1387
vestmentc1386
arraya1400
graitha1400
livery1399
tirementa1400
warnementa1400
arrayment1400
parelc1400
werlec1400
raiment?a1425
robinga1450
rayc1450
implements1454
willokc1460
habiliment1470
emparelc1475
atourement1481
indumenta1513
reparel1521
wearing gear1542
revesture1548
claesc1550
case1559
attirement1566
furniture1566
investuring1566
apparelling1567
dud1567
hilback1573
wear1576
dress1586
enfolding1586
caparison1589
plight1590
address1592
ward-ware1598
garnish1600
investments1600
ditement1603
dressing1603
waith1603
thing1605
vestry1606
garb1608
outwall1608
accoutrementa1610
wearing apparel1617
coutrement1621
vestament1632
vestiment1637
equipage1645
cask1646
aguise1647
back-timbera1656
investiture1660
rigging1664
drapery1686
vest1694
plumage1707
bussingc1712
hull1718
paraphernalia1736
togs1779
body clothing1802
slough1808
toggery1812
traps1813
garniture1827
body-clothes1828
garmenture1832
costume1838
fig1839
outfit1840
vestiture1841
outer womana1845
outward man1846
vestiary1846
rag1855
drag1870
clo'1874
parapherna1876
clobber1879
threads1926
mocker1939
schmatte1959
vine1959
kit1989
1879 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 501/2 I took the rattler to Forest Hill, and touched for..a kipsy full of clobber (clothes).
1879 J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail (1887) 10 Having a new suit of clobber on me.
1879 J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail (1887) 18 I..went home to change my clobber and put on the old clobber to work with the kipsy.
1901 G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion iii, in Three Plays for Puritans 292 Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.
1906 E. 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.
1908 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 4/4 All just the common sort, in their new summer clobber.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 10/4 Every fine Sunday morning all my war-time clobber goes out on the clothes-line.
1959 Observer 22 Mar. 25 To pay for the kiddies' clobber.
b. Equipment; ‘gear’; rubbish.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
mountures1489
outred1489
accomplement?c1525
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
apparate?c1600
accomplishment1605
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
set-out1831
rigging1837
fixture1854
parapherna1876
clobber1890
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
outred1489
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
supellectile1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
materialsa1600
apparate?c1600
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
outrig1639
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
fixture1767
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
matériel1821
set-out1831
rigging1837
parapherna1876
clobber1890
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]
wrakea1350
outcastingc1350
rammel1370
rubble1376
mullockc1390
refusec1390
filtha1398
outcasta1398
chaff?a1400
rubbishc1400
wastec1430
drossc1440
raff?1440
rascal1440
murgeonc1450
wrack1472
gear1489
garblec1503
scowl1538
raffle1543
baggage1549
garbage1549
peltry1550
gubbins?1553
lastage1553
scruff1559
retraict1575
ross1577
riddings1584
ket1586
scouring1588
pelf1589
offal1598
rummage1598
dog's meat1606
retriment1615
spitling1620
recrement1622
mundungus1637
sordes1640
muskings1649
rejectament1654
offscouring1655
brat1656
relicts1687
offage1727
litter1730
rejectamenta1795
outwale1825
detritus1834
junk1836
wastements1843
croke1847–78
sculch1847
debris1851
rumble1854
flotsam1861
jetsam1861
pelt1880
offcasting1893
rubbishry1894
littering1897
muckings1898
wastage1898
dreck1905
bruck1929
crap1934
garbo1953
clobber1965
dooky1965
grot1971
tippings-
1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 31 They call a man a robber if 'e stuffs 'is marchin' clobber With the..loot.
1925 in E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words
1951 A. Baron Rosie Hogarth 166 I gets off a bus in Old Street, all loaded up with clobber.
1965 Lancet 20 Nov. 1070/2 Every cellar stockroom..is packed tight with fantastic collections of clobber and junk.
Derivatives
clobber v.2 (transitive) to dress or ‘tog’ up.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > dress up or dress elaborately
disguisec1325
quaintisea1333
guisea1400
to dress up?a1513
deck?1521
garnisha1535
trim1594
gallant1614
sprug1622
dizena1625
to dress out1649
bedizen1661
rig1723
trim1756
bedress1821
gaudy1838
buck up1854
garb1868
clobber1887
mum1890
to do up1897
dude1899
toff1914
lair1941
1887 J. W. Horsley Jottings from Jail 9 I used to clobber myself up and go to the concert-rooms.
1889 E. Sampson Tales of Fancy 14 I must go there decently clobbered... I want you to go with me..to buy a cheap suit.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 16 May 9/4 The visitor, it seems, was clobbered up like an ordinary Aussie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
clobberv.1
/ˈklɒbə/, U.S. /ˈklɑbər/ 1. transitive. To patch up, cobble.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > repair or renovate
turn?c1475
translate1503
spetch1828
mend1836
clobber1851
reviver1852
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > repair or mend
draw1592
darnc1600
to draw up1603
ranter1607
fine-draw1665
clobber1851
plain-darn1880
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 369/1 The best black suits are to be ‘clobbered’ up.
1957 L. 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).
ΚΠ
1889 [see clobbered adj. at Derivatives].
Derivatives
ˈclobbered adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [adjective] > enamelled
ruby-back1875
ruby-backed1881
clobbered1889
wu ts'ai1904
three-colour1933
doucai1953
1889 Cent. Dict. Clobbered china.
1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain 114 There is a description of Chinese known as ‘Clobbered’,..over-painted with..ornament..and sold for decorated Oriental china.
1906 R. L. Hobson Porcelain 63 The spurious ornament of this ‘klobbered’ ware may be easily recognized.
1922 R. 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.
ˈclobbering n.1
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > enamelling
famille rose1868
famille verte1868
clobbering1872
famille noire1898
famille jaune1901
san ts'ai1901
wu ts'ai1904
schwarzlot1925
1872 Jewish Chron. 10 May 80/2 ‘Clobbering’—a technical term for ‘renovating’ old garments.
1910 R. L. Hobson Worcester Porcelain 61 Clobbering was freely practised in Holland first and England afterwards from the early part of the 18th century.
Derivatives
ˈclobberer n. (a) a patcher of clothes and shoes; (b) one who adds enamelled decoration to porcelain.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > repairing or renovating > one who
dubber1225
renovater1791
busheler1846
bushelman1864
clobberer1864
reviver1864
alteration hand1884
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who
souterc1000
cobbler1362
botcherc1480
cozier1532
translator1594
underlayer1692
snob1785
snab1797
botch1855
clobberer1864
snobber1900
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [noun] > enamelling > artist
clobberer1864
1864 Times 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.
1866 London Rev. 27 Oct. 459/2 There are various epithets for shoemakers..there are welters, repairers, clobberers, clickers.
1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain II. 261 The clobberer became an established institution, and he was at work in London in the last century.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
clobberv.2
slang.
To hit; to thrash or ‘beat up’; to defeat, shoot down; to reprimand or criticize severely.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > attack with aircraft [verb (transitive)] > bring down
to bring down1917
to shoot down in flames1918
to claw down1942
clobber1944
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person
to-beatc893
threshOE
bustc1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
berrya1250
to-bunea1250
touchc1330
arrayc1380
byfrapc1380
boxc1390
swinga1400
forbeatc1420
peal?a1425
routa1425
noddlea1450
forslinger1481
wipe1523
trima1529
baste1533
waulk1533
slip1535
peppera1550
bethwack1555
kembc1566
to beat (a person) black and blue1568
beswinge1568
paik1568
trounce1568
canvass1573
swaddle?1577
bebaste1582
besoop1589
bumfeage1589
dry-beat1589
feague1589
lamback1589
clapperclaw1590
thrash1593
belam1595
lam1595
beswaddle1598
bumfeagle1598
belabour1600
tew1600
flesh-baste1611
dust1612
feeze1612
mill1612
verberate1614
bethumpa1616
rebuke1619
bemaul1620
tabor1624
maula1627
batterfang1630
dry-baste1630
lambaste1637
thunder-thump1637
cullis1639
dry-banga1640
nuddle1640
sauce1651
feak1652
cotton1654
fustigate1656
brush1665
squab1668
raddle1677
to tan (a person's) hide1679
slam1691
bebump1694
to give (a person) his load1694
fag1699
towel1705
to kick a person's butt1741
fum1790
devel1807
bray1808
to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813
mug1818
to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821
welt1823
hidea1825
slate1825
targe1825
wallop1825
pounce1827
to lay into1838
flake1841
muzzle1843
paste1846
looder1850
frail1851
snake1859
fettle1863
to do over1866
jacket1875
to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877
to take apart1880
splatter1881
to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884
to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886
to do up1887
to —— (the) hell out of1887
to beat — bells out of a person1890
soak1892
to punch out1893
stoush1893
to work over1903
to beat up1907
to punch up1907
cream1929
shellac1930
to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931
duff1943
clobber1944
to fill in1948
to bash up1954
to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976
to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983
beast1990
becurry-
fan-
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat
shendc893
overwinOE
overheaveOE
mate?c1225
to say checkmatea1346
vanquishc1366
stightlea1375
outrayc1390
to put undera1393
forbeat1393
to shave (a person's) beardc1412
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
adawc1440
supprisec1440
to knock downc1450
to put to the worsta1475
waurc1475
convanquish1483
to put out1485
trima1529
convince1548
foil1548
whip1571
evict1596
superate1598
reduce1605
convict1607
defail1608
cast1610
banga1616
evince1620
worst1646
conquer1655
cuffa1657
trounce1657
to ride down1670
outdo1677
routa1704
lurcha1716
fling1790
bowl1793
lick1800
beat1801
mill1810
to row (someone) up Salt River1828
defeat1830
sack1830
skunk1832
whop1836
pip1838
throw1850
to clean out1858
take1864
wallop1865
to sock it to1877
whack1877
to clean up1888
to beat out1893
to see off1919
to lower the boom on1920
tonk1926
clobber1944
ace1950
to run into the ground1955
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > severely
to be sharp upon1561
crossbite1571
scarify1582
canvass1590
maul1592
slasha1652
fib1665
to be severe on (or upon)1672
scalp1676
to pull to (or in) pieces1703
roast1710
to cut up1762
tomahawk1815
to blow sky-high1819
row1826
excoriate1833
scourge1835
target1837
slate1848
scathe1852
to take apart1880
soak1892
pan1908
burn1914
slam1916
sandbag1919
to put the blast on (someone)1929
to tear down1938
clobber1944
handbag1952
rip1961
monster1976
1944 Gen 18 Nov. 9/1 Did anyone clobber any [sc. flying bombs]?
1949 in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 110/1 The Wolverines [football team] clobbered their opponents 42 to 3.
1951 M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1953) 206 ‘Poor loser!’ they kept yelling as they clobbered me.
1956 J. E. Johnson Wing Leader iii. 31 Six of the Spits had cannon stoppages, otherwise more Huns would have been clobbered.
1956 A. J. Wallis & C. F. Blair Thunder Above (1959) xiii. 134 The Press sure clobbered Roger Law... Don't know why I got off so easy.
1959 ‘O. Mills’ Stairway to Murder x. 114 He must have seen me clobber Leeming when he dived for the brief-case.
1969 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 1/4 Companies singled out for a special clobbering are the betting and gaming companies.
1969 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 3/8 Butlin's is heavily clobbered by the increase in Selective Employment Tax.
Derivatives
ˈclobbering n.2
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > [noun] > specific object a person
threshingOE
sousingc1580
rib-roast1595
basting1599
swingeing1603
cuffing1610
lamming1611
rib-roasting1613
mauling1621
pinking1637
drubbing1650
diverberation1651
verberation1661
trimming1675
rib1699
thrashing1720
dousing1721
fagging1746
bumping1751
dusting1799
clapperclawing1806
milling1806
hiding1809
punishment1811
doing1814
bethumping1831
mugging1846
jacketing1850
frailing1851
pasting1851
towelling1851
tanning1863
fum-fum1885
ribbing1894
paddywhack1898
tanking1905
beating-up1915
shellacking1931
sloshing1931
clobbering1948
twatting1963
duffing-up1967
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > use of mines and explosives > [noun] > use of bombs
bombing1691
bomb-throwing1905
suicide bombing1940
clobbering1948
society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of
area bombardment1918
straddling1919
pattern-bombing1933
terror-bombing1933
dive-bombing1935
firebombing1935
blind-bombing1940
blitzing1940
coventrating1940
nuisance bombing1940
scatter bombing1940
coventration1942
carpet bombing1943
obliteration bombing1943
skip-bombing1943
shuttle bombing1944
atom bombing1945
atomic bombing1945
clobbering1948
loft-bombing1956
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 43 Clobbering, (a) heavy bombing. (Air Force).
1959 J. Braine Vodi xii. 165 The police gave them such a clobbering that he never had any trouble again.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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