Other forms: cobblers
A cobbler is a person who mends shoes. Take it to the cobbler, the cobbler resoled them, a cobbler's shop.
Strictly a cobbler mends and a shoemaker or cordwainer makes, and the two trades kept that distinction seriously for centuries. Resoling a good pair of shoes about four times is far cheaper than replacing them, which is why cobblers survive. A cobbler is also a baked fruit pudding with a scone topping. Note cobblers, which in British slang means nonsense and comes from rhyming slang.
1nouncobblerA person who mends shoes.
“I took my boots to the cobbler to have new heels put on.”
2nounbakedA baked fruit pudding with a scone topping.
“For dessert she made a warm peach cobbler with vanilla ice cream.”
cobbler is a shoe mender, or a pudding.
Middle English cobeler is of unknown origin, which is unusual for a trade name. The pudding is probably named for its rough surface, resembling cobblestones, and the two words are unconnected.
Middle English
cobeler
English, today
cobbler
Built from
Middle English cobeler, cobelere (“mender of shoes, cobbler”)cobbeler, cobler, cobulare, cobyller; unknown. The word appears to be derived from an early form of cobble + -er, but is attested much earlier than the verb which suggests that the verb may be a back-formation from cobbler. Sense 2 (“sheep left to the end to be sheared”) is a pun on cobbler’s last (“tool for shaping or preserving the shape of shoes”); while sense 3 (“clumsy workman”) is derived from cobble + er: see above.
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