cobbler

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒblə/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒbələ/
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• General-American: /ˈkɑblɚ/
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• General-American: /ˈkɑbəlɚ/
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• rhymes with (Received Pronunciation) -ɒblə
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• rhymes with (General American) -ɑblə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: K AA1 B L ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler. Sense 2 (“sheep left to the end to be sheared”) is a pun on cobbler’s last (“tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes”); while sense 3 (“clumsy workman”) is derived from cobble + -er: see above.

Uncertain; it has been suggested that the word derives from cobbler’s punch (“warm drink made of beer with added spirit, sugar, and spices”), or because the drink patches up (“repairs; makes better”) the drinker.

From cobble (“rounded stone used for paving roads, cobblestone”) + -er (occupational suffix). Cobble is from Late Middle English, from cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”) + -le, -el (suffix forming diminutives). The further etymology of cobbe is uncertain; it is perhaps a variant of cop (“the top of something (a house, tower, mountain, tree, etc.); crown or top of the head; the head”), from Old English cop, copp (“summit, top; cup, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, orb; knoll; hilltop, summit; crown or top of the head; head; skull; bowl; container, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object; knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve; an arch, vault”). However, this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary.

Probably a variant of or related to cob, cobb (“stony fruit kernel; nut used in the game of conkers, conker; game of conkers”), perhaps from Middle English cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”): see further at etymology 3.

Origin unknown.

Uncertain. First attested in 1859; various suggested etymologies include: * the top having the appearance of cobblestone rather than smooth rolled-out pastry; * Middle English cobeler, some type of wooden bowl, dish, or vessel (mentioned in a 1385 list of wooden vessels) * the dish having been cobbled together, as it is suggested it may have originated in the British colonies in America among settlers who lacked ingredients and tools to make make things like traditional suet pudding and so fit together pieces of other pastry-topping materials.

From cobbler's awls as rhyming slang for balls.

223 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: إِسْكَاف (ʔiskāf) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Aramaic: ܐܫܟܦܐ — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Armenian: կոշկակար (koškakar) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Assamese: মুচী (musi) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Azerbaijani: çəkməçi — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Basque: zapatari — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Bengali: মুচী (muci) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Bulgarian: обуща́р (obuštár) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Catalan: sabater — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Catalan: sabatera — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Chinese Mandarin: 皮匠 (píjiàng) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Chinese Mandarin: 鞋匠 (xiéjiàng) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Cimbrian: schuastar — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Czech: švec — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Czech: příštipkář — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Danish: skoflikker — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Danish: skomager — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Dutch: schoenlapper — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Dutch: schoenlapster — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Dutch: schoenmaker — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Dutch: schoenmaakster — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Egyptian: S33-w (ṯbw) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Esperanto: ŝuflikisto — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Esperanto: ŝuflikistino — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Esperanto: botisto — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Esperanto: botistino — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Esperanto: ŝuisto — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Esperanto: ŝuistino — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Estonian: kingsepp — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Faroese: skómakari — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Faroese: skósmiður — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Finnish: suutari — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Finnish: rajasuutari — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• French: bouif — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• French: cordonnier — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• French: cordonnière — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• French: savetier — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• French: savetière — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Middle French: bobelineur — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Old French: corvisier — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Fula: jappaajo — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Galician: zapateiro — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Galician: zapateira — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Georgian: მეწაღე (mec̣aɣe) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Georgian: მეჩექმე (mečekme) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Georgian: ხარაზი (xarazi) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Flickschuster — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Flickschusterin — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Schuhflicker — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Schuhflickerin — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Schuhmacher — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Schuhmacherin — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Schuster — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• German: Schusterin — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Greek: παπουτσής (papoutsís) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Greek: τσαγκάρης (tsagkáris) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Greek: υποδηματοποιός (ypodimatopoiós) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ancient Greek: ὑποδηματοποιός (hupodēmatopoiós) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ancient Greek: νευρορρᾰ́φος (neurorrhắphos) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ancient Greek: πᾰλαιορᾰ́φος (pălaiorắphos) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ancient Greek: σκυτεύς (skuteús) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ancient Greek: σκῡτοτόμος (skūtotómos) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Gujarati: મોચી (mocī) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Hindi: चमार (camār) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Hindi: मोची (mocī) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Hungarian: cipész — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Hungarian: suszter — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Hungarian: varga — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Icelandic: skómakari — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Icelandic: skósmiður — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Irish: caibléir — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Irish: gréasaí — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Italian: calzolaio — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Italian: calzolaia — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Italian: ciabattino — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Italian: ciabattina — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Italian: zabattiero — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Italian: zabattiera — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Japanese: 靴直し (kutsunaoshi) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Japanese: 靴屋 (kutsuya) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ladin: calighé — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ladino: kunduradji — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ladino: kunduryero — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ladino: sapatero — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latin: calceātor — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latin: calceātrīx — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latin: calciātor — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latin: calciātrīx — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latin: sūtor — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latin: sūtrīx — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latin: sūtriballus — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latvian: apavnieks — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latvian: apavniece — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latvian: kurpnieks — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Latvian: kurpniece — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Luxembourgish: Schouster — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Luxembourgish: Schousterin — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Luxembourgish: Schoustesch — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Macedonian: чевлар (čevlar) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Macedonian: кондураџија (konduradžija) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Māori: hūmeke — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Marathi: चांभार (cāmbhār) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Marathi: मोची (mocī) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Marathi: चर्मकार (carmakār) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Middle English: soutere — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Norman: chav'tchi — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Norman: cordonnyi — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Norwegian Bokmål: skomaker — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Norwegian Nynorsk: skomakar — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Occitan: calçatièr — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Occitan: cauçatièr — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Occitan: sabatèr — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Occitan: sabatièr — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Occitan: sabatier — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Old English: sċōhwyrhta — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Persian: کفاش (kaffâš) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Plautdietsch: Schusta — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Polish: łatacz — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Polish: szewc — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Polish: szewczyni — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Portuguese: sapateiro — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Portuguese: sapateira — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Romanian: ciubotar — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Romanian: cizmar — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Romanian: pantofar — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Russian: башма́чник (bašmáčnik) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Russian: сапо́жник (sapóžnik) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Russian: сапо́жница (sapóžnica) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Scottish Gaelic: greusaiche — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀бућа̄р — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Serbo-Croatian: посто̀ла̄р — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Serbo-Croatian: ва̑рга — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Serbo-Croatian: òbućār — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Serbo-Croatian: postòlār — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Serbo-Croatian: vȃrga — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Sicilian: zavatteri — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Spanish: remendón — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Spanish: remendona — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Spanish: zapatero — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Spanish: zapatera — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Spanish: zapatero remendón — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Spanish: zapatera remendona — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Suku: sapateiro — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Swedish: skomakare — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Swedish: skomakerska — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Swedish: skoflickare — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Old Swedish: sutare — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Turkish: ayakkabıcı — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ottoman Turkish: اسكیجی (eskici) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ukrainian: чоботар (čobotar) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Ukrainian: швець (švecʹ) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Uyghur: ياماقچى (yamaqchi) — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Volapük: lujukel — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Volapük: hilujukel — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Volapük: jilujukel — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Welsh: crydd — person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes
• Polish: ostatnia owca do strzyżenia — sheep left to the end to be sheared
• Danish: klamphugger — clumsy workman
• Finnish: tunari — clumsy workman
• German: Flickschuster — clumsy workman
• German: Flickschusterin — clumsy workman
• German: Patzer — clumsy workman
• German: Patzerin — clumsy workman
• German: Pfuscher — clumsy workman
• German: Pfuscherin — clumsy workman
• German: Stümper — clumsy workman
• German: Stümperin — clumsy workman
• Polish: niezdara — clumsy workman
• Finnish: cobbler — alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar
• Polish: cobbler — alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar
• Swedish: kobbel — alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar
• Danish: brolægger — roadworker who lays cobbles
• Finnish: kivimies — roadworker who lays cobbles
• French: ouvrier paveur — roadworker who lays cobbles
• French: ouvrière paveuse — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Pflasterer — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Pflasterin — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Steinleger — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Steinlegerin — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Steinsetzer — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Steinsetzerin — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Straßenpflasterer — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Strassenpflasterer — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Straßenpflasterin — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Strassenpflasterin — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Pflästereihandlanger — roadworker who lays cobbles
• German: Pflästereihandlangerin — roadworker who lays cobbles
• Ingrian: kamenšikka — roadworker who lays cobbles
• Italian: acciottolatore — roadworker who lays cobbles
• Italian: acciottolatrice — roadworker who lays cobbles
• Polish: brukarz — roadworker who lays cobbles
• Romanian: caldarâmgiu — roadworker who lays cobbles
• Polish: plotos wielkogłowy — Cnidoglanis macrocephalus
• Polish: skorpena marmurkowa — Gymnapistes marmoratus
• Irish: gréasaí — Pangasius pangasius
• Polish: panga indyjska — Pangasius pangasius
• Polish: sówka szewczyk — Condica sutor
• Bulgarian: ченге (čenge) — (slang) police officer
• Finnish: kyttä — (slang) police officer
• Finnish: jepari — (slang) police officer
• Finnish: jeppe — (slang) police officer
• Finnish: pollari — (slang) police officer
• German: Bulle — (slang) police officer
• German: Polente — (slang) police officer
• German: Polyp — (slang) police officer
• Hungarian: fakabát — (slang) police officer
• Hungarian: sün — (slang) police officer
• Hungarian: zsaru — (slang) police officer
• Hungarian: zsernyák — (slang) police officer
• Polish: gliniarz — (slang) police officer
• Swedish: aina — (slang) police officer
• Swedish: snut — (slang) police officer
• Bulgarian: плодов сладкиш (plodov sladkiš) — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• Dutch: fruittaart — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• Dutch: taart — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• Finnish: paistos — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• German: Auflauf — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• German: Fruchtpastete — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• German: Obstauflauf — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• Occitan: cobbler — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• Occitan: sabatièr — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• Polish: cobbler — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer
• Yiddish: טייגבאַדעקטע פֿרוכט (teygbadekte frukht) — kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer