Dobber vs X - What's the difference?
dobber | x |
(US) A tool used to play bingo; a dauber.
(UK, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills; closely connected to chav .
(Australia, UK, derogatory) One who dobs (informs against or implicates to authority).
* 1999 , William De Maria, Deadly Disclosures: Whistleblowing and the Ethical Meltdown of Australia ,
* 2010 , Lisa Heidke, What Kate Did Next ,
* 2011 , James Morton, Susanna Lobez, Gangland Melbourne ,
(British, informal) Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
(British, chiefly, dialect) A large marble.
(US, regional) A float (as used by an angler).
* 2007 , William G. Tapply, Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly-Fishing ,
A dabchick.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a noun dobber
is (us) a tool used to play bingo; a dauber.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.dobber
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nikki is such a dobber , she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground.
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- In awakening us to our powerlessness, whistleblowers produce all sorts of crisscrossed emotions. Should we respond to them as truth-bearing ethical citizens, or spiteful, griping dobbers ?
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- ‘Not only that,’ Graeme continued, ‘but Simone?s a dobber' – and no-one likes a ' dobber , do they, K?’
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- The question was whether the dobber had simply dobbed or whether he had planted the weapons.
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- In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph.