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
5 November 2024
(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
