corrobory

corrobory

English

Noun

corrobory (plural corrobories)

1. Alternative form of corroboree
   • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

     And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]