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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Prob. an Anglo-Indian form of Hindi

bāp re

O thou father! (a very disrespectful address).]

A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance;

as, to raise a

bobbery

[Low]

Halliwell.

bobbery ‎(plural bobberies)

(dated) A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance.

to raise a bobbery

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