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单词 bobbery
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bobberyn.

/ˈbɒbəri/
Etymology: According to Col. Yule, and others, an Anglo-Indian representation of Hindi Bāp re! O father!, a common exclamation of surprise or grief. Forby has it in 1830 as East Anglian dialect; and it has been plausibly (as to the form) referred to Spanish boberia folly; but the evidence for its origination in India is decisive.
slang.
Noise, noisy disturbance, ‘row’.
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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.

/ˈbɒbəri/
Forms: Also bobberee.
Etymology: ? < bobbery n.
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.
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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).
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