dobbers

Noun

dobber (plural dobbers)

1. (UK, derogatory) A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills.
2. (Australia, UK, derogatory) One who dobs (someone) (informs against them or implicates them to authority).
   • Nikki is such a dobber, she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground.

   Synonyms:

   snitch, snitcher, tattletale

3. (UK, informal) Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
4. (Ireland, UK, dialectal) A large marble.
   • They were the biggest rosary beads I ever saw, the beads were the size of big marbles or dobbers or taws. Dobbers and taws we used to play with in the channels beside the footpaths, when we used to play the road games.2004, Austin O'Donovan, O'Donovan from Garryowen, page 37
5. (US, regional) A float (as used by an angler).
   • In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph.2007, William G. Tapply, Trout Eyes: True Tales of Adventure, Travel, and Fly-Fishing, page 191

   Synonyms:

   bobber

6. (US, broadly, figuratively, regional) Spirit, pluck, self-esteem.
   • I went to the ballgame [in San Francisco] in April, and I was booed. I never was before that. It affected my dobber, my psyche.1978, Robert Pack, Jerry Brown, the Philosopher-prince, Scarborough House

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