bobbery
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: bobbery pack. a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds
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informal a noisy commotion
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of bobbery
First recorded in 1810–20, bobbery is from Hindi bāp re “O father!”
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The stables were a great point, and the bobbery pack, which hunt pig for five months all through the winter, accounted in one season for something like nineteen full-grown boar, ten tuskers, and nine sows.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel
Kicked up the most delightful bobbery that had ever been witnessed!
From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony
De waves make plenty much bobbery, de masts dey break and fall.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon
"Fiz bobbery pershal Besides aims commercial, Much wishing to honor my friend Sir John Herschel, Cum puddin and tame, It's inscribed to his name, Which is now at the full in celestial fame."
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
At last he came, looking somewhat ill, for we were crossing the Gulf of California, and Boreas and Neptune had been elevating Robert, or in plainer English, "Kicking up a bobbery," all night long.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly
You say, 'We'd ha' seared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these'?
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
You say,—"We 'd ha' scared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these"?
From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas
You say,—"We'd ha' scared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these"?
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
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