noun · rare

cobbler

cob·bler

cobbler · cobblers

швець, чоботар

сапожник, сапожница

Schuster, Schuhmacher, Flickschuster, Auflauf

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoesA person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

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UK/ˈkɒblə/US/ˈkɑblɚ/

» The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.

Der Schuster trägt immer die schlechtesten Schuhe.

Meaning

15 senses

A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.
Flickschuster, Flickschusterin, Schuhflicker
башма́чникbašmáčnik, сапо́жникsapóžnik, сапо́жницаsapóžnica
чоботарčobotar, швецьšvecʹ
a person who makes or repairs shoes
(Australia, New Zealand, slang)A sheep left to the end to be sheared (for example, because its wool is filthy, or because it is difficult to catch).
(US)An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.
tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit
A roadworker who lays cobbles.
Pflasterer, Pflasterin, Steinleger
(UK, dialectal)The shiny, hard seed of the horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum), especially when used in the game of the same name (sense 1.2); a conker, a horse chestnut.
(UK, dialectal)Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”).
Also estuary cobbler:
(Australia)The South Australian catfish (Cnidoglanis macrocephalus), a species of catfish native to Australia which has dorsal and pectoral fins bearing sharp, venomous spines.
(Australia)The soldier or South Australian cobbler (Gymnapistes marmoratus), a brown fish native to southern Australian estuaries which is not closely related to Cnidoglanis macrocephalus, but also has venemous spines on its dorsal and pectoral fins.
Used as a name for various animals.
(UK)Also river cobbler: basa (Pangasius bocourti), an edible species of shark catfish native to the Chao Phraya and Mekong river basins in Southeast Asia.
(UK)Pangas catfish (Pangasius pangasius), an edible species of shark catfish native to Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, and Pakistan.
(US)Condica sutor, an owlet moth native to North America.
(usually plural, slang)A police officer.
Look out: it’s the cobblers!
Bulle, Polente, Polyp

Examples

19 sentences

The cobbler always wears the worst shoes.
deDer Schuster trägt immer die schlechtesten Schuhe.
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Tom ate some peach cobbler.
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A cobbler should stick to his last.
ruВсяк сверчок знай свой шесток.
deSchuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten.
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Let the cobbler stick to his last.
deSchuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten.
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A cobbler is also known as a shoemaker.
ruЧасто сапожника также называют обувщиком.
deSchuster nennt man auch Schuhmacher.
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Translations

9 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes:

Русский

By meaning 1

person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes:

Deutsch

By meaning 5

person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes:

clumsy workman:

roadworker who lays cobbles:

(slang) police officer:

kind of pie, usually filled with fruit and topped with a thick, cake-like pastry layer:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other fo

Inherited from Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”) [and other forms]; further origin unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble (“to mend roughly, patch; (specifically) to mend shoes, especially roughly”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns), but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler.

Uncertain; it has been suggested that the word derives from cobbler’s punch (“warm drink made of beer with added spirit, sugar, and spices”), or because the drink patches up (“repairs; makes better”) the drinker.

From cobble (“rounded stone used for paving roads, cobblestone”) + -er (occupational suffix). Cobble is from Late Middle English, from cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”) + -le, -el (suffix forming diminutives). The further etymology of cobbe is uncertain; it is perhaps a variant of cop (“the top of something (a house, tower, mountain, tree, etc.); crown or top of the head; the head”), from Old English cop, copp (“summit, top; cup, vessel”), from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“round object, orb; knoll; hilltop, summit; crown or top of the head; head; skull; bowl; container, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *gup- (“round object; knoll”), from *gew- (“to bend, curve; an arch, vault”). However, this is doubted by the Oxford English Dictionary.

Probably a variant of or related to cob, cobb (“stony fruit kernel; nut used in the game of conkers, conker; game of conkers”), perhaps from Middle English cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”): see further at etymology 3.

Uncertain. First attested in 1859; various suggested etymologies include:

From cobbler's awls as rhyming slang for balls.

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