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bobbery

noun

  1. A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance.

    dated

    They’d’ve kick’d up a rale bubbery, and’ve thrown the fat intu the fire in a jump.

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry bobbery (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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