cobblers
/ (ˈkɒbləz) British slang /
rubbish; nonsense: a load of old cobblers
another word for testicles: See testicle
an exclamation of strong disagreement
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How to use cobblers in a sentence
One of these yellow-skinned cobblers will make a pair of Vel-Schoenen in less than a couple of hours.
The Vee-Boers | Mayne ReidThe children and cobblers and shop-keepers buying with the yellow gold the "thousand years old names!"
The Kempton-Wace Letters | Jack LondonYonder lies the district called the 'Forêt Noire'--a land of unpleasing atmosphere inhabited by cobblers and clothes-menders.
In the Days of My Youth | Amelia Ann Blandford EdwardsOnly those who toil in the forests don the uncouth boots turned out by the firm of cobblers known as Block & Nicklestick.
West Wind Drift | George Barr McCutcheonYoung America sipping cobblers, and roving about in very loose and immoral coats, voted it "a case."
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