单词 | bobbery |
释义 | bobberyn. slang. Noise, noisy disturbance, ‘row’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > uproar or tumult brack?c1200 ludea1275 ludingc1275 grede13.. to-doc1330 stevenc1385 ruitc1390 shoutingc1405 rumourc1425 dirdumc1440 shout1487 rippit?1507 glamer?a1513 rangat?a1513 reird?a1513 larumc1515 reirdour1535 uproar1544 clamouring1548 racket1565 baldare1582 rack jack1582 rufflery1582 pother1603 rut1607 clamorousnessa1617 hurricane1639 clutter1656 flaw1676 splutter1677 rout1684 hirdum-dirdum1724 fracas1727 collieshangie1737 racketing1760 hullabaloo1762 hurly1806 bobbery1816 trevally1819 pandemonium1827 hurly-burly1830 outroar1845 on-ding1871 tow-row1877 ruckus1885 molrowing1892 rookus1892 rux1918 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > (a) noisy rippit?1507 hubbleshowa1525 burlinga1533 hubble-shubblec1550 burle1563 coil1567 hirdy-girdy1568 riff-raff1582 rut1607 hubbuba1625 clutter1656 sputter1673 splutter1677 rattle1688 rumpus1745 ree-raw1797 bobbery1816 trevally1819 stramash1821 nitty1822 hell's delight1823 pandemonium1827 oration1828 Bob's-a-dying1829 hubbaboo1830 reerie1832 circus1869 tow-row1877 ruaille buaille1885 brouhaha1890 foofaraw1933 bangarang1943 bassa-bassa1956 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master (Adventures in Hindostan) xi. 48 The muse now blushes to disclose The bobbery that here arose. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. viii. 118 There'll be a bobbery in the pig-sty before long. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bobbery, a disturbance, row, or squabble; a term much used in the East Indies and China. 1879 Punch 17 May 227 I might in quiet hold my own, And not go kicking up a bobbery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018). bobberyadj. Chiefly Anglo-Indian. Of a pack of hounds: miscellaneous in breed or quality. Also more widely: poor, of indifferent quality, ‘scratch’. See also quot. 1934. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [adjective] salec1299 bastarda1348 sorry1372 slight1393 shrewd1426 singlec1449 backc1450 soberc1450 lesser1464 silly?a1500 starven1546 mockado1577 subaltern1578 bastardly1583 wooden1592 starved1604 perishing1605 starveling1611 minor1612 starvy1647 potsherd1655 low1727 la-la1800 waif1824 lathen1843 one-eyed1843 snide1859 bobbery1873 jerkwater1877 low-grade1878 shoddy1882 tinhorn1886 jerk1893 cheapie1898 shaganappi1900 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1907 pissy1922 crappy1928 cruddy1935 el cheapo1967 pound shop1989 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [adjective] > of a pack of hounds suity1851 bobbery1873 1873 ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind 2nd Ser. 86 Other servants bobbery pack, Drinking up what master leave, sir. 1878 G. Graham Life in Mofussil I. 142 On the mornings when the ‘bobberee’ pack went out. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping i The daily drills and the hunts with the bobbery packs. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 234 A mounted officer pushing forward here, another there trying to turn his ‘bobbery’ horse to get back. 1934 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XLI. 20 The word [bobbery] is scarcely used by Anglo-India, except in the phrase ‘bobbery pack’, where bobbery is an adjective, bearing the derived meaning ‘mixed’, ‘mongrel’, i.e. not composed of fox-hounds, &c.; also, occasionally (= fidgety), of a horse or infant. 1968 ‘J. Welcome’ Hell is where you find It xi. 146 And what the hell do I do..besides breaking my neck in a bobbery second-class steeplechase? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1816adj.1873 |
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