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bobbery-bob

bobbery-bob interjection: oh dear! Alas! Good lord!

Interjection

  1. (obsolete) Oh dear! Alas! Good lord!
    • ‘Would not your Royal Highness like to come into the next room and see the dancers?’ said the Major in great perplexity, forgetting all about the inflected verbs. / ‘No, Bobbery Bob! I’ll drink some more sherbet, old man’.1868, Out of the Meshes, volume II, page 273

Origin of bobbery-bob

An alteration of Hindi बाप रे बाप (bāp re bāp, “Father oh father!”).

Questions about bobbery-bob

What does bobbery-bob mean?
Bobbery-bob means oh dear! Alas! Good lord!
What part of speech is bobbery-bob?
Bobbery-bob is an interjection.

Words near bobbery-bob in the dictionary

  1. bobberies
  2. bobbers
  3. bobbery
  4. bobbery pack
  5. bobbery packs
  6. bobbery-bob
  7. bobbes
  8. Bobbi
  9. bobbie
  10. bobbies
  11. Bobbikins

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