dobber
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of dauber (“marker pen used for bingo cards”).
noun
A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills.
British usage; Derogatory
noun
One who dobs (someone) (informs against them or implicates them to authority).
Australian usage; British usage; Derogatory
noun
Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.
British usage; Informal
noun
A dabchick.
Example Sentences
- "Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dobber or a betting pencil?"
- "Nikki is such a dobber, she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground."
- "In awakening us to our powerlessness, whistleblowers produce all sorts of crisscrossed emotions. Should we respond to them as truth-bearing ethical citizens, or spiteful, griping dobbers?"
- "‘Not only that,’ Graeme continued, ‘but Simone′s a dobber – and no-one likes a dobber, do they, K?[…]’"
- "The question was whether the dobber had simply dobbed or whether he had planted the weapons."
- "They were the biggest rosary beads I ever saw, the beads were the size of big marbles or dobbers or taws. Dobbers and taws we used to play with in the channels beside the footpaths, when we used to play the road games."
Usage
- British usage
- Derogatory
- Australian usage
- Informal
- American usage
- Slang