different between bobble vs bauble
bobble
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?b?l/
- Rhymes: -?b?l
- Homophone: bauble (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
bobble (plural bobbles)
- A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
- (Britain) 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.
- 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible (page 45)
- From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
- 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible (page 45)
- A wobbling motion.
Derived terms
- bobble hat
- bobblehead
- bobbly
- head bobble
Translations
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.
- November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [1]
- A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.
- November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [1]
Derived terms
- bobbler
Translations
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bauble
English
Etymology
From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): [?b??b??]
- (Scots) IPA(key): [?b?b??]
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?b?l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?b?b?l/
- (US)
- Rhymes: -??b?l
- Homophone: bobble (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun
bauble (plural baubles)
- A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
- 1818, Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Chapter 8
- as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.
- 1977, Jimmy Webb, "Highwayman" (song):
- Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.
- 1818, Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Chapter 8
- A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
- A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
Synonyms
- (showy ornament): See also: Thesaurus:trinket
Translations
Further reading
- bauble on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- bauble in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- bubale
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- what baubles mean
- what bubble tea should i get
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- what bubble tea has the least calories
- what bubble are we in now
- what bubble tea is the best
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