bobble

English

Compare bauble.

bobble (plural bobbles)

A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
(British) Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
(informal) A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
(knitting) A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
- 2008, Claire Compton, Sue Whiting, The Knitting and Crochet Bible, page 45:
  From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
A wobbling motion.
- 2013, Elizabeth Chatterjee, Delhi: Mostly Harmless: One woman’s vision of the city:
  My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant […]

furry ball attached on top of a hat

elasticated band for securing hair

bobble (third-person singular simple present bobbles, present participle bobbling, simple past and past participle bobbled)

(intransitive) To bob up and down.
(US) To make a mistake in.
(intransitive) To roll slowly.
- November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [1]
  A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.
(US, sports, transitive) To mishandle a ball.
(knitting, rare) To use the bobble stitch.
- 2008, Leisure Arts, I Can't Believe I'm Knitting Cables, page 9:
  You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.

to bob up and down

to make a mistake in

to roll slowly

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 “bobble”, in Collins English Dictionary.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 “bobble”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 “bobble” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
^ “bobble”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bobble”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.