cobbler

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit

   My favorite dessert is peach cobbler.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who repairs, and sometimes makes, shoes.

   This honest Cobler has done what he might: / That Statesmen in their Shoes might walk upright. / But rotten Shoes of Spannish running-leather: / No Coblers skill, can stitch them strong together.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who cobbles (“to assemble or mend in an improvised or rough way”); a clumsy workman.

   Truely Sir, in reſpect of a fine Workman, / I am but as you would ſay, a Cobler.

4. 4
   noun

   An (iced) alcoholic drink containing spirit or wine, with lemon juice and sugar.

   [H]e produced a very large tumbler, piled up to the brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice, through which one or two thin slices of lemon, and a golden liquid of delicious appearance, appeared from the still depths below, to the loving eye of the spectator. […] "This wonderful invention, sir," said Mark, tenderly patting the empty glass, "is called a cobbler. Sherry cobbler when you name it long; cobbler, when you name it short.[…]".

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;...

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