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Definition: Cobbler |
CobblerNoun1. A person who makes or repairs shoes. 2. Tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit. 3. Made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cobbler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Literature | Cobbler A drink made of wine (sherry), sugar, lemon, and ice. It is sipped up through a straw. (See Cobbler's Punch ) "This wonderful invention, sir, ... is called cobbler,- Sherry cobbler, when you name it long; cobbler when you name it short."- Dickens: Marten Chuzzlewit, xvii. Cobbler Let not the cobbler overstep his last (Ne sutor ultra crepidam). Let no one presume to interfere in matters of which he is ignorant. The tale goes that a cobbler detected a fault in the shoe-latchet of one of Apelles' paintings, and the artist rectified the fault. The cobbler, thinking himself very wise, next ventured to criticise the legs; but Apelles answered, "Keep to your trade"- you understand about shoes, but not about anatomy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Occupations | Repairs or refinishes shoes, following customer specifications, or according to nature of damage, or type of shoe: Positions shoe on last and pulls and cuts off sole or heel with pincers and knife. Starts machine, and holds welt against rotating sanding wheel or rubs with sandpaper to bevel and roughen welt for attachment of new sole. Selects blank or cuts sole or heel piece to approximate size from material, using knife. Brushes cement on new sole or heel piece and on shoe welt and shoe heel. Positions sole over shoe welt or heel piece on shoe heel and pounds piece, using machine or hammer, so piece adheres to shoe; drives nails around sole or heel edge into shoe; or guides shoe and sole under needle of sewing machine to fasten sole to shoe. Trims sole or heel edge to shape of shoe with knife. Holds and turns shoe sole or heel against revolving abrasive wheel to smooth edge and remove excess material. Brushes edge with stain or polish and holds against revolving buffing wheels to polish edge. Nails heel and toe cleats to shoe. Restitches ripped portions or sews patches over holes in shoe uppers by hand or machine. Dampens portion of shoe and inserts and twists adjustable stretcher in shoes or pull portion of moistened shoe back and forth over warm iron to stretch shoe. May build up portions of shoes by nailing, stapling, or stitching additional material to shoe sole to add height or make other specified alterations to orthopedic shoes. May repair belts, luggage, purses, and other products made of materials, such as canvas, leather, and plastic. May quote charges, receive articles, and collect payment for repairs [SERVICE-ESTABLISHMENT ATTENDANT (laundry & rel.; personal ser.) 369.477-014]. (references) |
| Repairs shoes damaged in manufacturing process: Inspects shoe or reads ticket to determine defects. Removes damaged parts, using handtools, such as knife, hammer, $T3lasting tool,$T1 prying tool, and tack puller. Operates stitching machine or stitches by hand to repair broken or missed stitches and to replace parts. Relasts shoe to remove defects, such as wrinkles from outer parts, bunching of inner parts, and crooked seams. Aligns and cements parts, such as edges, bindings, heels, soles, and uppers of shoe by hand. May fill holes and cracks in shoes, using colored wax filler. May be designated according to part of shoe repaired as Cobbler, Sole (boot & shoe); Cobbler, Upper (boot & shoe); Lining Repairer (boot & shoe); or according to method of shoe construction as Cobbler, McKay (boot & shoe). (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | COBBLER. A mender of shoes, an improver of the understandings of his customers; a translator. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CobblerSynonyms: deep-dish pie (n), shoemaker (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dressmaker, habitmaker, breechesmaker, shoemaker; Crispin; friseur; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter; draper, linen draper, haberdasher, mercer. |
Restoration | Tinker, cobbler; vis medicatrix; (remedy). curableness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cobbler |
| English words defined with "cobbler": Souter, Souterly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cobbler": Cobbler Poet, Crepidam ♦ Great Men ♦ Hewson ♦ LAST ♦ Meistersingers ♦ Ne Sutor ♦ Shoe the Cobbler ♦ Woo-tee Dynasty. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cobbler" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (cobbler). |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Peachy Cobbler (1950) Otto the Cobbler (1916) The Cobbler Captain Jinks (1916) | |
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 | The Coming man.--A Chinese cigar manufactory in San Francisco--preparing the tobacco-leaf and making cigars / / from a sketch by our special artist. The Coming man.--A street scene in the Chinese quarter, San Francisco--a cobbler repairing the shoes of o. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Old cobbler. Moore Haven, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Colonel John Tysowski, Cobbler Mountain Farm, Delaplane, Virginia. Dining room, living room and fireplace. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns. Ah, punster, would my lot were cast, Where the cobbler is unknown, So that I might forget his last And hear your own. Gargo Repsky |
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| "Cobbler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.98% of the time. "Cobbler" is used about 99 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.98% | 97 | 33,269 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 99 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cobbler": Cobbler fish ♦ sherry cobbler. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cobbler": cobbler-up. | |
Ending with "cobbler": sherry-cobbler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cobbler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | punëtor i ngathët, pije frutash me akull, këpucar (shoemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فطيرة (fritter, pancake, pasty, patty, pie, pizza), عامل غير بارع (bungler, tinker), القبلر شراب مسكر, الإسكافي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разхладително питие от вино, кърпач (heeler, mender), вид плодов сладкиш, обущар (shoemaker), лош работник (dabster, slob), лош (bad, chronic, evil, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 补鞋 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | příštipkář. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پینه دوز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suutari (dud, shoemaker, tench). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cordonnier, tourte (coot), sorte de punch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schuster (cobblers, shoe repairer, shoemaker, shoemakers), flickschuster (botcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μπαλωμάτησ, εμβαλωμάτησ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אושכף (saddler, shoemaker), רצען (saddler, shoemaker), ס "לר (shoemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cipész (boot-maker, shoemaker), suszter (shoemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tukang sepatu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ciabattino (boot repairer, shoe repairer), calzolaio (shoe repairer, shoemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 위조자 (Counterfeiter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | greasee (bootmaker, cobbling, cordwainer, shoemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | obblercay sapateiro (bootmaker, shoemaker), remendão (mender, sloven, tinker). (various references) cizmar (bootmaker, shoemaker), cârpaci (botcher, bungler, duffer), meşter prost, bãuturã din vin, bãuturã amestecatã. (various references) koondoorjìs. (various references) сапожник (bootmaker, shoemaker). (various references) morokadieta. (various references) obućarski, obućar (clobber, shoemaker), koještarija (baloney, bilge, buncombe, bunk, bunko, crap, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, rigmarole, rot). (various references) zapatero remendón (shoe mender, shoe repairer). (various references) skomakare (bootmaker, shoemaker). (various references) ช่างซ่อมหรือทำรองเท้า. (various references) şaraplı bir tür koktely, ayakkabı tamircisi, acemi çaylak (clumsy fellow, fledgeling, fledgling, rank beginner, rookie). (various references) швець (bootmaker, shoemaker), партач. (various references) crydd (shoemaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cobbler": cobblers. (additional references) | |
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"Cobbler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cobbet, cobblar, Cobbley, cobbly, Cobiere, cobler, coblet, Cobner, coboller, dobler, Obler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cobbler" (pronounced kÄ"bler) |
| 3 | -b l er | Ambler, assembler, babbler, gambler, rambler, scribbler, temblor, tumbler, warbler. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: clobber. | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-e-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: cobber, cobble, corbel, lobber. | |
-2 letters: ceorl, coble, roble. | |
-3 letters: bleb, blob, bloc, bole, bore, cero, cobb, cole, core, lobe, lore, orle, robe, role. | |
-4 letters: bel, bob, bro, cel, cob, col, cor, ebb, lob, obe, ole, orb, orc, ore, reb, rec, rob, roc, roe. | |
-5 letters: be, bo, el, er, lo, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-e-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: clobbers, cobblers. | |
+2 letters: clobbered. | |
+3 letters: clobbering. | |
+4 letters: blockbuster, breechblock. | |
+5 letters: blockbusters, bonnyclabber, breechblocks, secobarbital. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 62 62 6C 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- -... -... .-.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100010 01100010 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o b b l e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0062 0062 006C 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37816868787184 |
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