bobble

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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* (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix). * (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare bauble.

Clara was at the jib-sheet, I had the chart and the tiller (you know how absent I get like that); there was a bobble of sea, and we both had heaps to do, and—well—I happened to look round, and he was gone. — The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
“I shall put on the woollen fascinator your dear mother crocheted for me,” said grandma, and, unstrapping the sausage, she took it out and wound it round her head; the fringe of grey bobbles danced at her eyebrows as she smiled tenderly and mournfully at Fenella. — The Garden Party, and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield

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