[
US
/ˈkɑbɫɝz/
]
[ UK /kˈɒbləz/ ]
[ UK /kˈɒbləz/ ]
NOUN
- a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)
-
nonsense
I think that is a load of cobblers
How To Use cobblers In A Sentence
- Step up to the plate – or bushel – and tap into these unwanted fruit on trees in backyards across the nation that could be making the world a better place through more pie – or jam or cobblers or muffins – you get the picture. Untapped Abundance: Three Steps to Adopting a Neighbor’s Fruit Tree
- ‘What do you call cobblers’ punch?’ demanded Wegg, in Our Mutual Friend
- There are no more cobblers who make shoes (well, there are some who cater to highly specialized foot issues).
- About nice drinks, anyhow, my recollection of the "cobblers" (with strawberries and snow on top of the large tumblers,) and also the exquisite wines, and the perfect and mild French brandy, help the regretful reminiscence of my New Orleans experiences of those days. November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
- They were talking cobblers, obviously, but now having eyes in the back of your head is possible. The Sun
- Grunts are cousins of all kinds of other fruit desserts with CRAZY names: cobblers, crisps, betties, clafoutis, pandowdies, buckles.
- It is a pity that we never thought of the thousands of cobblers, weavers or blacksmiths who were crowded out because of globalisation.
- To aid the cause, father Mick, a one-time bootmaker, dusted off his cobblers kit and set to work repairing boots and shoes at the town's Trades Hall building, with Shorty as his ‘shoeshine boy’.
- My old man said be a Swansea fan but I said bog-off, cobblers you're a fart!
- They were once so numerous that the town kept the feast of St Crispin on October 25, patron saint of cobblers.