Bobble vs Bibble - What's the difference?
bobble | bibble |
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]
To eat and/or drink noisily.
To tipple.
Worry.
* 1919 , Herbert Quick, The Fairview Idea: A Story of the New Rural Life , page 39
*:"Foxes have holes,' Uncle Abner," said Daisy, " 'and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.' Why should we worry when we have such a bully place as this tent?" "Ish ka bibble'," said the Reverend Frank. "Well," said I, "about the time the mosquitoes begin to come out of the marsh, you'll begin to ' bibble ."
As verbs the difference between bobble and bibble
is that bobble is to bob up and down while bibble is to eat and/or drink noisily.As a noun bobble
is a furry ball attached on top of a hat.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.