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chobbling

chobbling is the present participle and gerund of chobble.

Meaning of chobble

Verb

chobble (third-person singular simple present chobbles, present participle chobbling, simple past and past participle chobbled)

  1. (Midlands, Yorkshire) To chew into small pieces.
    • An’ I gets m’ pig ’ome, an’ ’e sims to turn out copital; ’e be sich a despret good cratcher, doan’t kip suckin’ an’ quiddlin’ at ’is fittle, but a chobbles it up like.1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, Berrow's Worcester Journal Company, page 12

Questions about chobbling

What is chobbling the present participle and gerund of?
Chobbling is the present participle and gerund of chobble.

Words near chobbling in the dictionary

  1. Chobanian
  2. Chobanyan
  3. chobble
  4. chobbled
  5. chobbles
  6. chobbling
  7. chobdar
  8. chobdars
  9. chobedar
  10. chobedars
  11. Chobham

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