bobbery
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Is bobbery a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance.Examples: "bobbery: a disturbance."; "They’d’ve kick’d up a rale bubbery, and’ve thrown the fat intu the fire in a jump."; "Another and another followed, till, at last, the unwieldy bank, amidst an awful bobbery, swung high and dry on the shelving beach; and out we all sprung, right glad once more to feel ourselves on terra firma."dated
intj (English)
1. (Anglo-Indian, obsolete) Oh dear! Alas! Good lord!Examples: "Thus the British and Colonial Courts are comparatively empty compared with the Indian Court and jewellery room, which are invariably crowded - so much so that special precautions have to be taken with regard to the latter, only a few being admitted at a time, and they stare at gaudy pictures and glittering jewellery and at the gold brocades and brilliant silks and cloths of their own country and cry "Bapré" or, as it is generally known, "Bobbery," in admiration[.]"; ""Hullo!" said Col. Wingate, of the Dogras, who had just entered the stand, "another Carr-Jones spoof? By Jove, it isn't Carr-Jones; it's Polhill and Ulmun! Oh! bobbery: here, I'll lay a hundred to one in gold mohurs against the griffs!""obsolete
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