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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28 April 2024

POLYGENIC

(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes


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