Meanings
present singular third person cobbles together · participle present cobbling together · participle past cobbled together · past cobbled together
- To put together (something) without adequate preparation or equipment; to improvise (something) minimally usable.
As a Londoner and regular user since the 1980s, I remember how it was an awful, mismatched place cobbled together from various styles of architecture and which was anything but passenger friendly.
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 30
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 拼湊 /拼凑
- 拼湊 /拼凑 (pīncòu)put together
Czech splácat
- splácatput together
Finnish virittää
- virittääput together
French bricoler
- bricolerput together
German zusammenschustern
- zusammenschusternput together
Italian mettere insieme alla bell'e meglio
- mettere insieme alla bell'e meglioput together
Polish klecić, sklecić
- klecićput together
- sklecićput together
Russian сварга́нить, сля́пать
- сварга́нить (svargánitʹ)put together
- сля́пать (sljápatʹ)put together
Cite this entry
cobble together. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cobble%20together
“cobble together.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cobble%20together. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cobble together,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cobble%20together.
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