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Cobblers (Noun)

Meaning 1

Nonsense; "I think that is a load of cobblers".

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Examples

  • The politician's promise to lower taxes and increase spending was a load of cobblers that no one believed.
  • The claim that the new diet pill would help you lose 20 pounds in a week was a bunch of cobblers.
  • When the friend said he had seen a UFO, the others just laughed and told him he was talking a load of cobblers.
  • The salesman's claims about the benefits of the new software were just a load of cobblers designed to get us to buy it.
  • The excuse for being late was such a load of cobblers that the boss didn't even bother to ask for details.

Hypernyms

  • Bunk
  • Meaninglessness
  • Nonsensicality
  • Hokum

Meaning 2

A man's testicles (from Cockney rhyming slang: cobbler's awl rhymes with ball).

Classification

Nouns denoting body parts.

Hypernyms

  • Testicle
  • Ballock
  • Egg
  • Bollock
  • Nut
  • Orchis
  • Ball
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