bobbery
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A squabble; a row; a disturbance: as, to kick up a bobbery.
Examples
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Never was a 'bobbery' more delightful than that which we have just succeeded in 'kicking up' all around about Boston Common.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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She was also full of sage counsel, advising marriage with a warm girl having "nice things at her -- nice lands and pigs and things" -- as a ready way to square the "bobbery" of thirty years ago at Ballawhaine.
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It makes me sick of myself, to make such a fash and bobbery over a rotten end of an old nursery yarn, not worth spitting on when done.
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How she was the home of lies and flies, the grave of reputation, the refuge of the remittance man and the bad egg; the land of the unexpected pest, but never the unexpected blessing; of sunstroke and fever; scandals and broken careers; snobbery, bobbery, and highway robbery.
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"I shall always kick up a bobbery," he returned, calmly, "when you put on that romantic, sentimental air."
Note
The word 'bobbery' probably comes from an Anglo-Indian form of a Hindi term for "O thou father!" (a disrespectful term of address).
