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bobble

/ˈbɒbəl/

bobble noun: a furry ball attached on top of a hat.

Noun

bobble (plural bobbles)

  1. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
  2. (UK) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
  3. (informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
  4. A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
    • 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.2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 45
  5. A wobbling motion.
    • My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant […]2013, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless: One woman’s vision of the city

Verb

bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)

  1. (intransitive) To bob up and down.
  2. (US) To make a mistake in.
  3. (intransitive) To roll slowly.
    • A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20278355
  4. (US, transitive) To mishandle a ball.
  5. (rare) To use the bobble stitch.
    • You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9

bobble meaning in Tamil

bobble in Tamil

நீர்க்கொந்தளிப்பு, இராட்டை

Forms of bobble

Noun
pluralbobbles
Verb
third-person singular presentbobbles
present participlebobbling
past participlebobbled
pastbobbled

Plural of bobble: bobbles

Origin of bobble

* (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix). * (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare bauble.

Words formed from bobble

Phrases with bobble

Words that rhyme with bobble

Questions about bobble

What does bobble mean?
Bobble means a furry ball attached on top of a hat.
What is bobble in Tamil?
Bobble in Tamil is நீர்க்கொந்தளிப்பு, இராட்டை. See Bobble meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bobble?
Bobble can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce bobble?
Bobble is pronounced /ˈbɒbəl/.
What is the plural of bobble?
The plural of bobble is bobbles.

Words near bobble in the dictionary

  1. bobbittize
  2. Bobbittized
  3. Bobbittizes
  4. Bobbittizing
  5. bobbitts
  6. bobble
  7. bobble hat
  8. bobble hats
  9. bobble head
  10. bobble heads
  11. bobble-head doll syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bobble (page history and authors); bobble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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