bobbery

American  

[bob-uh-ree] / ˈbɒb ə ri /

noun

• bobberies
  plural

1. a disturbance; brawl.

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bobbery British  

/ ˈbɒbərɪ /

noun

1. Also called: bobbery pack. a mixed pack of hunting dogs, often not belonging to any of the hound breeds

2. informal a noisy commotion

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adjective

1. informal noisy or excitable

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bobberies
  plural

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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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Example Sentences

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bobbery bobberies

Skunks will often prove a great bother, as they take all kinds of bait and kick up no end of a "bobbery" when caught.

From Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

But what was the whole bobbery about, he kept putting to himself, for there was no open war with any of the tribes?

From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford

I durst not ask either father or mother after the bobbery we've had.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat

The tall fellow denied it, and there was a devil of a bobbery.

From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

Massa Saunders make trebble bobbery if we lose dat.”

From Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by William H. C. Groome

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

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

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