cobbler
a person who mends shoes.
a deep-dish fruit pie with a rich biscuit crust, usually only on top.
an iced drink made of wine or liquor, fruits, sugar, etc.
a fabric rejected because of defective dyeing or finishing.
Rare. mummichog.
Archaic. a clumsy workman.
Origin of cobbler
1Words Nearby cobbler
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How to use cobbler in a sentence
All eyes will be on Georgia, which will offer an electoral post-Thanksgiving dessert of peach cobbler.
A Blue Nevada Means Democrats Will Keep Control Of The Senate | Geoffrey Skelley (geoffrey.skelley@abc.com) | November 13, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightA whiteboard advertises a fish-and-cheese sandwich and homemade peach cobbler.
The most interactive finale is the baked-to-order strawberry-peach cobbler, served beneath a big round cover of what looks like fruit leather but is in fact a tuile.
Count on crisp and juicy fried chicken at the bustling new Yardbird in D.C. | Tom Sietsema | June 25, 2021 | Washington PostOn Sunday nights, the family would crowd around the dinner table for a big dinner of fried chicken, potatoes, beans, biscuits and cobbler.
A Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre Says Her Family Is Still Trying to Break Its Curse, 100 Years Later | Paulina Cachero | May 29, 2021 | TimeThe other cobbler is Annette Turrillo, whose photos show a circle of women’s shoes arrayed around a single pair of men’s.
In the galleries: A painful, political take on the art of cruel shoes | Mark Jenkins | April 9, 2021 | Washington Post
As the story goes, Socrates engaged the cobbler and the local youth in philosophical discussions while Simon worked.
So, offer to bring a gorgeous pie (or cobbler, crisp, crumble, tart, compote or charlotte) to your next potluck invite.
Like the cobbler's stall in the old song, it served the present occupants for "kitchen and parlour and all."
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieWilliam Read died; originally a cobbler, became a mountebank, and practiced medicine by the light of nature!
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThen there must be the ghost of a "bootmaker," with the ghost of a "lapstone," and a "last," and the spirit of "cobbler's wax!"
Second Edition of A Discovery Concerning Ghosts | George CruikshankHe was the son of a cobbler, and disgraced the imperial dignity by acts of barbarity and tyranny.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellRabbi Mr. Wigram had needed some trifling repair to his boots, and had accordingly sent them overnight to a cobbler.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. Wigram
British Dictionary definitions for cobbler (1 of 2)
/ (ˈkɒblə) /
a person who makes or mends shoes
Origin of cobbler
1British Dictionary definitions for cobbler (2 of 2)
/ (ˈkɒblə) /
a sweetened iced drink, usually made from fruit and wine or liqueur
mainly US a hot dessert made of fruit covered with a rich cakelike crust
Origin of cobbler
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with cobbler
see stick to one's last.
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