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Nobble vs Bobble - What's the difference?

nobble | bobble |

As verbs the difference between nobble and bobble

is that nobble is (british|australia|slang) to injure or obstruct intentionally; batter while bobble is to bob up and down.

As a noun bobble is

a furry ball attached on top of a hat.

nobble

English

Verb

(nobbl)
  • (British, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally; batter.
  • * 2011 , Terry Ryder, " Affordable-housing lobby out to nobble investments", The Australian , 22 October 2011:
    • Their core belief, unsupported by evidence or logic, is that homes are unaffordable because investors drive up prices.
    Australians for Affordable Housing appears to think that nobbling investors will strike a telling blow for first-time buyers: remove negative gearing and increase capital gains tax, and homes will be affordable.
  • * 2012 , Gavin Clarke, " Google attacks Twitter's search bias claim", The Register , 11 January 2012:
    • Google has come out fighting after Twitter claimed that changes to its search engine nobble results to favour Google+, damaging the internet.
  • *2012 , " 3D printing: Difference Engine: The PC all over again?", The Economist , 9 September 2012:
  • *:His main fear is that the fledgling technology could have its wings clipped by traditional manufacturers, who will doubtless view it as a threat to their livelihoods, and do all in their powers to nobble it.
  • (British, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
    • The jury was nobbled to delay unanimous verdict.
  • *2000 , Italo Pardo, Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and System , page 122
    • Unlike "noble" vigilantes, the police and court facilities which exist are said to be inefficient and corrupt, and juries are said to be easily "nobbled " or intimidated.
  • *2002 , Kevin Jefferys, Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown , page 107
  • *:For example jury trials were reformed to allow majority verdicts, so that criminals could less easily nobble them.
  • *2012 , Mark Hagger, William: King and Conqueror , page 75
  • *:Here, though, Picot's overbearing power, and the fact that the bishop was an absentee, meant that the sheriff could use threats to "nobble" the judges.
  • (British, slang) To steal.

    • Usage notes

    The first meaning is employed mainly in sporting contexts, especially in horse racing. The second is used in judicial contexts, applied often to courts, juries and other judicial bodies.

    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