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bobble

[ bob-uhl ]

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noun

a repeated, jerky movement; bob.
a momentary fumbling or juggling of a batted or thrown baseball.
an error; mistake.
a small ball of fabric usually used decoratively, as in a fringe or other trimming:
a sweater with a line of bobbles up the sleeves.

, bob·bled, bob·bling.

to juggle or fumble (a batted or thrown baseball) momentarily, usually resulting in an error.

bobble

/ ˈbɒbəl /

a short jerky motion, as of a cork floating on disturbed water; bobbing movement
a tufted ball, usually for ornament, as on a knitted hat
any small dangling ball or bundle

intr sport (of a ball) to bounce with a rapid erratic motion due to an uneven playing surface
informal.
to handle (something) ineptly; muff; bungle
he bobbled the ball and lost the game

Origin of bobble¹

1805–15; bob ¹ + -le; bobble ( def 4 ) perhaps new formation with bob ²

Origin of bobble¹

C19: from bob ¹(vb)

She dispenses facts like a braying machine, bobble-nodding a head of hyper-lacquered hair.

Nothing, that is, except an uncertain bobble of sea, overspread by a wind-driven mist which kept the wary under cover.

"It is too bad that I make so much bobble," said the Chinese lad to his friend one day.

When I seek to do what I supremely consider to be for the best I make a bobble.

He could distinguish that there was something; and that the something seemed to bobble.

She was weeping, too, her head vibrating like a bobble-doll.

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