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cobbler

cobb·ler

UK/ˈkɒblə/ US/ˈkɒbələ/ uncommon obsolete slang uk us

noun

1.

a person who makes or repairs shoes

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2.

tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit

3.

made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit

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Origin

From cobble (“rounded stone used for paving roads, cobblestone”) + -er (occupational suffix). Cobble is from Late Middle English, from cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”) + -le, -el (suffix forming diminutives). The further etymology of cobbe is uncertain; it is perhaps a variant of cop (“the top of something (a house, tower, mountain, tree, etc.); crown or top of the head; the head”), from Old English cop, copp (“summit, top; cup, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, orb; knoll; hilltop, summit; crown or top of the head; head; skull; bowl; container, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object; knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve; an arch, vault”). However, this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary.

Phrases

  • cobbler's pegs
  • cobbler's punch
  • cobbler, keep to your last
  • gentle craft
  • let the cobbler stick to his last
  • the cobbler always wears the worst shoes
  • the cobbler's children are the worst shod
  • the cobbler's children go barefoot

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