cobbler


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cobbler/ˈkɒblə(r)/
noun
  • 1 a person whose job is mending shoes.
  • 2 an iced drink made with wine or sherry, sugar, and lemon.
  • 3 chiefly N. Amer. a fruit pie with a rich, cake-like crust.
  • 4 (cobblers) Brit. informal a man's testicles. [from rhyming sl. cobbler's awls ‘balls’.]

    ■ nonsense.

– origin ME: of unknown origin.
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