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bobble

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Etymology

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Compare bauble.

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Noun

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bobble (plural bobbles)

  1. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
  2. (British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
  3. (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
  4. (knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
    • 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 45:
      From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
  5. A wobbling motion.
    • 2013, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless: One woman’s vision of the city:
      My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant []

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Verb

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bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)

  1. (intransitive) To bob up and down.
  2. (US) To make a mistake in.
  3. (intransitive) To roll slowly.
    • November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [1]
      A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.
  4. (US, sports, transitive) To mishandle a ball.
  5. (knitting, rare) To use the bobble stitch.
    • 2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:
      You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 bobble”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  2. 2.0 2.1 bobble”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 bobble” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
  4. ^ bobble”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  5. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bobble”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.