cobblers
(noun) a man’s testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler’s awl rhymes with ball)
cobblers
(noun) nonsense; “I think that is a load of cobblers”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Shortened from cobbler’s awls, for balls (testicles or nonsense)
cobblers
plural of cobbler
(Cockney rhyming slang) testicles.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Nonsense.
• (testicles): see testicles
• (nonsense): see nonsense
• clobbers, scrobble
Source: Wiktionary
Cob"bler, n.
1. A mender of shoes. Addison.
2. A clumsy workman. Shak.
3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish (Zoöl.), a marine fish (Blepharis crinitus) of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 March 2025
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
