Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Like the work of a cobbler; patched or clumsily put together.
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- verb Present participle of
cobble .
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- noun the shoemaker's trade
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Examples
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Clark says most enterprise customers want their own private cloud at first, but some will start seeing the value in cobbling together a wide variety of cloud services, such as those offered by Amazon Web Services, providers like Rackspace, or even a potential infrastructure as a service offering from IBM.
IBM Thinks Its Cloud Role Will Be in Services and Software 2009
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Since a criminal investigation is involved here she must be most careful to ensure that she is truthful at all times about what has happened and that she does not become embroiled in cobbling up an untrue explanation of events which might later become the subject of evidence under Oath in the Crown Court.
Archive 2008-11-30 2008
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Since a criminal investigation is involved here she must be most careful to ensure that she is truthful at all times about what has happened and that she does not become embroiled in cobbling up an untrue explanation of events which might later become the subject of evidence under Oath in the Crown Court.
Perverting the Course Of Justice Is An Offence, Harriett 2008
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The challenge lies in cobbling together the money to replace damaged books at seven branches in New Orleans and six in Jefferson Parish.
July 2006 2006
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The challenge lies in cobbling together the money to replace damaged books at seven branches in New Orleans and six in Jefferson Parish.
The Forecast Highs 2006
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Since that I have been much interested with an attempt, — a further morsel of cobbling, which is being done to improve the representation of the people.
The American Senator 2004
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Since that I have been much interested with an attempt, -- a further morsel of cobbling, which is being done to improve the representation of the people.
The American Senator Anthony Trollope 1848
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To make it a full meal, I bought a couple sausages (one per person is about right) and used half a box of mushrooms with the idea of cobbling together a roast.
Serious Eats 2009
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They have begun informally exploring the idea of cobbling together a governing coalition.
CTV News RSS Feed 2008
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They have begun informally exploring the idea of cobbling together a governing coalition.
leaden commented on the word cobbling
I suspect someone at the CD&C had really bad shoes.
October 12, 2011