BOBBLE

bobble

(noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; “the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out”

botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

bobble (plural bobbles)

A furry ball attached on top of a hat.

(British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie

(informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).

(knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.

A wobbling motion.

Verb

bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)

(intransitive) To bob up and down.

(US) To make a mistake in.

(intransitive) To roll slowly.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

29 March 2025

THOUGHTLESS

(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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