Meaning

5 senses

  1. A furry ball attached on top of a hat.

    Bommel, Pompon

    помпо́нpompón

  2. (UK)Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie

    гумка для волоссяhumka dlja volossja

  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.

  5. A wobbling motion.

More definitions
  • the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Mary watch the figurine's head bobble.

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Translations

4 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
elasticated band for securing hair:
Русский
By meaning 1
furry ball attached on top of a hat:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
furry ball attached on top of a hat:

Origin

* (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).

* (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).

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Forms

plural: bobbles
Singularbobble
Pluralbobbles

regular

Word family

5 related words
Derivedbobble hatbobblydebobblehair bobblehead bobble

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bobbobabobbinbobbybobcatbobtail

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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