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cob·bler

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–noun

1.	a person who mends shoes.

2.	a deep-dish fruit pie with a rich biscuit crust, usually only on top.

3.	an iced drink made of wine or liquor, fruits, sugar, etc.

4.	a fabric rejected because of defective dyeing or finishing.

5.	a mummichog.

6.	Archaic. a clumsy workman.

[Origin: 1250–1300; ME cobelere, equiv. to cobel (< ?) + -ere -er¹

]

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cob·bler¹ Audio Help (kŏb'lər) Pronunciation Key
n.

One who mends or makes boots and shoes.
Archaic One who is clumsy at work; a bungler.

[Middle English cobeler.]

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cob·bler² Audio Help (kŏb'lər) Pronunciation Key
n.

A deep-dish fruit pie with a thick top crust.
An iced drink made of wine or liqueur, sugar, and citrus fruit.

[Origin unknown.]

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cobbler

1287, cobelere "one who mends shoes," of uncertain origin. "The cobbler should stick to his last" (ne sutor ultra crepidam) is from the anecdote of Gk. painter Apelles. [The quote is variously reported: Pliny ("Natural History" XXXV.x.36) has ne supra crepidam judicaret, while Valerius Maximus (VIII.xiii.3) gives supra plantam ascendere vetuit.] The meaning "pie" is Amer.Eng. 1859, perhaps related to 14c. cobeler "wooden bowl."

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cobbler
noun
1.	a person who makes or repairs shoes
2.	tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit
3.	a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit [syn: deep-dish pie]

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cobbler

see stick to one's last.

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ˈcobbler noun

a person who mends shoes

Arabic:	إسْكافي
Chinese (Simplified):	皮匠,修鞋匠
Chinese (Traditional):	皮匠,修鞋匠
Czech:	švec
Danish:	skomager
Dutch:	schoenlapper
Estonian:	kingsepp
Finnish:	suutari
French:	cordonnier, *-ière
German:	der Flickschuster
Greek:	τσαγκάρης, μπαλωματής
Hungarian:	foltozóvarga
Icelandic:	skósmiður
Indonesian:	tukang sepatu
Italian:	ciabattino, calzolaio

Japanese:	靴直し職人
Korean:	구두 수선공
Latvian:	kurpnieks (apavu labotājs)
Lithuanian:	kurpius
Norwegian:	skomaker
Polish:	szewc
Portuguese (Brazil):	sapateiro, remendão
Portuguese (Portugal):	sapateiro
Romanian:	cizmar
Russian:	сапожник
Slovak:	obuvník
Slovenian:	čevljar
Spanish:	zapatero
Swedish:	skomakare
Turkish:	ayakkabı tamircisi