subs. (popular).—A noise; a squabble; a disturbance; a RACKET (q.v.). [YULE: An Anglo-Indian representation of Bāpre! O father! a common exclamation of surprise or grief. MURRAY: the evidence for its origination in India is decisive, other plausible derivations to the contrary notwithstanding.]
1803. KENNEY, Raising the Wind, II., i. If I don’t go back, and kick up such a BOBBERY.
1833. MARRYAT, Peter Simple, II. viii. I’ll bet a wager there’ll be a BOBBERY in the pig-sty before long, for they are ripe for mischief.
1836. MARRYAT, Mr. Midshipman Easy, xix. 115. ‘I can do nothing but there’s a BOBBERY at the bottom of it.’
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (Hermann). Kicking up all sorts of shindies and BOBBERIES.
1879. Punch, 17 May, 227.
| I might in quiet hold my own, | |
| And not go kicking up a BOBBERY. |
