Bobble vs Jobble - What's the difference?

bobble | jobble |

As verbs the difference between bobble and jobble

is that bobble is to bob up and down while jobble is to wobble.

As a noun bobble

is a furry ball attached on top of a hat.

bobble

English

Noun

(en noun)

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)

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.

A wobbling motion.

* 2013 , Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless: One woman’s vision of the city

My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant

Derived terms

* bobble hat * bobbly

Verb

(bobbl)

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 neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.

Derived terms

* bobbler

jobble

English

Verb

(jobbl)

To wobble.

* 1852 , Hunt's Yachting Magazine (volume 1, page 347)

At Malta there was a race between little sailing-boats; one boy slung his ballast under the thwart of his boat; there was a slight tumble in the sea; the boat jobbled up and down, but forged away from all the rest and won the race.

* 2007 , Richard Hall, Long George Alley (page 20)

Miss Mamie Lee had a big belly that jobbled when she laughed.