chobble
English
Etymology 1
Blend of chew + gobble
Verb
chobble (third-person singular simple present chobbles, present participle chobbling, simple past and past participle chobbled)
- (Midlands, Yorkshire) To chew into small pieces.
- 1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, Berrow's Worcester Journal Company, page 12:
- An’ I gets m’ pig ’ome, an’ ’e sims to turn out copital; ’e be sich a despret good cratcher, doan’t kip suckin’ an’ quiddlin’ at ’is fittle, but a chobbles it up like.
- 2000, Roy Holland, Just a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 3:
- “Can’t get used to the damn things,” he says. “Easier to chobble away like this.”
- 2013, Geoffrey Hill, Kenneth Haynes, editor, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 368:
- […] / Chaos ordains. But to what depth? Some demon / chobbles its rap-cassette, spits out / pathetic dreadlocks. […]
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Noun
chobble (countable and uncountable, plural chobbles)
- (nonstandard, pronunciation spelling) Alternative form of trouble
- 2013, Jack Teeter, chapter 7, in Billie the Kid:
- “If ya give me chobble, mon, I gwann hang up!” he threatens.
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Verb
chobble (third-person singular simple present chobbles, present participle chobbling, simple past and past participle chobbled)
- (nonstandard, pronunciation spelling) Alternative form of trouble
- 2010, Prince S. Garrett, Blood on Babywipes, page 248:
- “Lissin mon, dunt chobble mi wit some ear-sey ‘bout wha yuh tink appen ta mi pickni an mi coac.”
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