cobblers

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. (form-of, plural) plural of cobbler
  2. (Cockney, slang) testicles.
  3. (Cockney, slang) Nonsense.

cobbler

  1. A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
  2. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
  3. (obsolete) A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

Frekwensie

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Etimologie (Engels)

Shortened from cobbler’s awls, for balls (testicles or nonsense)http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cob1.htm

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