Definition of "bobbery" []

• A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "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."