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Bobbery
Definitions
- 1 Oh dear! Alas! Good lord! obsolete
"Thus the British and Colonial Courts are comparatively empty compared with the Indian Court and jewellery room, which are invariably crowded - so much so that special precautions have to be taken with regard to the latter, only a few being admitted at a time, and they stare at gaudy pictures and glittering jewellery and at the gold brocades and brilliant silks and cloths of their own country and cry "Bapré" or, as it is generally known, "Bobbery," in admiration[.]"
- 1 A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance. dated
"bobbery: a disturbance."
Etymology
Uncertain; occurs earliest in British thieves' cant and Chinese Pidgin English, as well as extensively throughout British dialect. In origin, unrelated to the Anglo-Indian exclamation.
Alteration of Hindi बाप रे (bāp re, “O father!”).
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