Bobble vs Bauble - What's the difference?
bobble | bauble |
A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
(British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
(informal) A pill (ball formed on surface of fabric, as on laundered clothes).
(knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
* 2008 , Claire Compton, ?Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible (page 45)
A wobbling motion.
* 2013 , Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless: One woman’s vision of the city
To bob up and down.
(US) To make a mistake in.
to roll slowly
* November 17 2012 , BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355]
A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
As nouns the difference between bobble and bauble
is that bobble is a furry ball attached on top of a hat while bauble is a cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.As a verb bobble
is to bob up and down.bobble
English
Noun
(en noun)- From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles , two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
- My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant
Derived terms
* bobble hat * bobblyVerb
(bobbl)- A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.