chobble
noun1
Nonstandard, Pronunciation spelling Pronunciation spelling of trouble.
- “If ya give me chobble, mon, I gwann hang up!” he threatens.2013, Jack Teeter, chapter 7, in Billie the Kid:
chobble
verbEtymology Perhaps a blend of chew + gobble but perhaps instead from chop + -le (frequentative suffix).
- An’ I gets m’ pig ’ome, an’ ’e sims to turn out copital; ’e be sich a despret good cratcher, doan’t kip suckin’ an’ quiddlin’ at ’is fittle, but a chobbles it up like.1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, Berrow's Worcester Journal Company, page 12:
- “Can’t get used to the damn things,” he says. “Easier to chobble away like this.”2000, Roy Holland, Just a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 3:
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- […] / Chaos ordains. But to what depth? Some demon / chobbles its rap-cassette, spits out / pathetic dreadlocks. […]2013, Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 368: