Other forms: cobbled, cobbles, cobbling
To cobble is to put something together roughly and quickly. Cobble together a solution, cobbled from spare parts, cobbled together overnight.
It nearly always appears as cobble together, and it admits the result is rough. The older sense is to mend shoes, from cobbler. A cobble is also a rounded stone used for paving. The three senses have tangled histories.
1verbcobbleTo put something together roughly and quickly.
“We cobbled together a meal from whatever was left in the fridge.”
cobble is a rough making.
Probably from cobbler, one who mends shoes roughly. The paving cobble is a diminutive of cob, a lump.
Middle English
cobill
English, today
cobble
Built from
From Middle English cobill, kobill (used in various combinations with ston, stan (“stone”), note, nutt (“nut”), etc.), probably a diminutive of Middle English cob, cobb, ultimately from Proto-Germanic kubb- (“lump; round object”). Equivalent to cob + le. Cognate to gmq - kubbi, kobbi (“round object, bulge, heap, islet, seal, bowler hat, etc”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA