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COBBLERS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cobblers mean?
• COBBLERS (noun)
The noun COBBLERS has 2 senses:
2. a man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)
Familiarity information: COBBLERS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nonsense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
I think that is a load of cobblers
Hypernyms ("cobblers" is a kind of...):
bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Hypernyms ("cobblers" is a kind of...):
ball; ballock; bollock; egg; nut; orchis; testicle; testis (one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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