Learning / English Dictionary

COBBLERS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("cobblers" is a kind of...):

ball; ballock; bollock; egg; nut; orchis; testicle; testis (one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nonsense

Example:

I think that is a load of cobblers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cobblers" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

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