cobbler

noun16

1. •
   A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

   • This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together. — 1647
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   (US) Often preceded by a descriptive word as in apple cobbler, peach cobbler, etc.: a kind of pie, usually filled with fruit, originally having a crust at the base but nowadays generally lacking this and instead topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer.

   • The Al Qaeda online magazine 'Inspire' has a recipe for a homemade bomb. They also have a recipe for a pretty darn good peach cobbler. — 2013
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   [in the plural] (slang) A testicle.
4. •
   (US) An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.

   • It was very hot when Captain Littledale was here; he did nothing but drink sherry cobblers. — 1878
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   Used as a name for various animals.
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   (Australia) The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.

   • Fished for cobblers in the evening. The warbler sings its night-song. — 1831
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   (Australia) The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.
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   (UK) Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.
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   (UK) Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
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    (US) Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.
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    (dialect, UK) The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name; a conker, a horse chestnut.
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    (dialect, UK) Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
13. •
    A roadworker who lays cobbles.
14. •
    [usually plural] (slang) A police officer.

    • Look out: it’s the cobblers!
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    (Australia, slang) A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
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    (no longer used) A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

    • Truely Sir, in respect of a fine Workman, / I am but as you would say, a Cobler. — 1599