bobbery

Noun

bobbery (plural bobberies)

1. (dated) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance.
   • bobbery: a disturbance.1795, H.T. Potter, A New Dictionary Of All The Cant And Flash Languages
   • They’d’ve kick’d up a rale bubbery, and’ve thrown the fat intu the fire in a jump.1834, ‘Jack Downing’, Andrew Jackson, page 228

Interjection

1. (obsolete) Oh dear! Alas! Good lord!
   • Thus the British and Colonial Courts are comparatively empty compared with the Indian Court and jewellery room, which are invariably crowded - so much so that special precautions have to be taken with regard to the latter, only a few being admitted at a time, and they stare at gaudy pictures and...1884 February 5, The South Australian Register, Adelaide, page 1, column 1
   • "Hullo!" said Col. Wingate, of the Dogras, who had just entered the stand, "another Carr-Jones spoof? By Jove, it isn't Carr-Jones; it's Polhill and Ulmun! Oh! bobbery: here, I'll lay a hundred to one in gold mohurs against the griffs!"1908 September 5, The Evening Journal, Adelaide, page 6, column 2