chobble

present singular third person chobbles · participle present chobbling · participle past chobbled · past chobbled

1. MidlandsYorkshireTo chew into small pieces.

   “Can’t get used to the damn things,” he says. “Easier to chobble away like this.”

   2000, Roy Holland, Just a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 3

   2 more examples

   An’ I gets m’ pig ’ome, an’ ’e sims to turn out copital; ’e be sich a despret good cratcher, doan’t kip suckin’ an’ quiddlin’ at ’is fittle, but a chobbles it up like.

   1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, Berrow's Worcester Journal Company, page 12

   […] / Chaos ordains. But to what depth? Some demon / chobbles its rap-cassette, spits out / pathetic dreadlocks. […]

   2013, Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 368

plural chobbles

1. countablenonstandardpronunciation spellinguncountablePronunciation spelling of trouble.

   “If ya give me chobble, mon, I gwann hang up!” he threatens.

   2013, Jack Teeter, chapter 7, in Billie the Kid

present singular third person chobbles · participle present chobbling · participle past chobbled · past chobbled

1. nonstandardpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of trouble.

   “Lissin mon, dunt chobble mi wit some ear-sey ‘bout wha yuh tink appen ta mi pickni an mi coac.”

   2010, Prince S. Garrett, Blood on Babywipes, page 248