cobblers

See also: cobbler's

English

Etymology

Shortened from cobbler’s awls, for balls (testicles or nonsense)[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

cobblers

1. plural of cobbler
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) testicles.

   Then she only goes and kicks me right in me cobblers, don’t she!

3. (Cockney rhyming slang) Nonsense.

   Stop talking cobblers. Load of old cobblers.

Synonyms

• (testicles): see Thesaurus:testicles
• (nonsense): see Thesaurus:nonsense

Further reading

• “Cobblers”, World Wide Words, Michael Quinion

Anagrams

• clobbers, scrobble