cobble
pronunciation
How to pronounce cobble in British English:
UK [ˈkɒbl]
How to pronounce cobble in American English:
US [ˈkɑbl]
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- Noun:
- rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
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- Verb:
- pave with cobblestones
- repair or mend
Word Origin
- cobble
- cobble: Cobble as in cobblestone [15] and cobble ‘mend’ [15] are two distinct words. The former was derived from cob ‘rounded lump’, with the diminutive suffix -le. The earliest evidence of it is in the compound cobblestone, and it is not recorded on its own until about 1600. The verb cobble is a back-formation from cobbler ‘shoemaker’ [14], of unknown origin. The derivative cobblers ‘nonsense’ [20] is short for cobbler’s awls, rhyming slang for ‘balls’.=> cob
- cobble (n.)
- "paving stone; worn, rounded stone," c. 1600, earlier cobblestone, probably a diminutive of cob in some sense. The verb in this sense is from 1690s. Related: Cobbled; cobbling.
- cobble (v.)
- "to mend clumsily," late 15c., perhaps a back-formation from cobbler (n.1), or from cob, via a notion of lumps. Related: Cobbled; cobbling.
Example
- 1. Narrnw streets of cobble stone .
- 2. I walked alone the narrow street of cobble stone .
- 3. Enjoy the narrow cobble stone streets and quant atomosphere .
- 4. The cobble - sized clasts match well with local granite bedrock , indicating that their provenance must be local .
- 5. In restless dreams I walked along narrow streets of cobble stone .