bobbery
Americannoun
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bobberies
plural
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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I'll bet a wager there'll be a bobbery in the pig-sty before long, for they are ripe for mischief.
From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat
And now, what's the bobbery between the pair of you?
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
"De moment dat dey began to make bobbery at door, I opened stable door and bring out de three horses."
From A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
I had many enjoyable scampers with Mr. Milton’s bobbery pack, which I believe is still going strong in the City of Palaces.
From The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. by M. Horace (Matthew Horace) Hayes
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 Isabel Savory
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 James Russell Lowell
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 Thomas Hughes
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 James Russell Lowell
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