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Definition of Bobbery
1. n. A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
Definition of Bobbery
1. Noun. (dated) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bobbery
1. a disturbance [n -BERIES] - See also: disturbance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bobbery
Literary usage of Bobbery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1900)
"THE LAST RUN OF THE bobbery PACK. By CAPTAIN FRH CHAPMAN. ... In the bobbery Pack
there were bull terriers, bull spaniels, bull greyhounds, ..."
2. Sport and Travel in India and Central America by A. G. Bagot (1897)
""A bobbery PACK." IN the last chapter I endeavoured to give an account of a
memorable run with the Peshawar Vale hounds, and in so doing was dealing with ..."
3. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1874)
"... 4 m 11 с Neeson, James, for Stealing, 29 / lie Organ, Edwin, and others, for
Stealing, 22 1 j 10 « I • Ostrog, Bertrand, for bobbery, 6_; 5 с ! ..."
4. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing [pseud.] of Downingville: Away by Seba] [Smith (1834)
"In which Major Downing tells the President about his book, and the pictures in
it, and prevents a bobbery in the Senate chamber. Washington City, Dec. ..."
5. Radnor Reminiscences: A Foxhunting Journal by J. Stanley Reeve (1921)
"They had no shape an' they had no style; Their manners were bad and their morals
slack; They were noisy, but wonderful versatile, Andy Hartigan's bobbery ..."
6. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1901)
"In the March number I published an article called 'A bobbery Pack,' by Mr.
HR Heatley. I have not the pleasure of knowing the author, whose article came to ..."
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