dobber

noun 5

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noun

1

Alternative form of dauber (“marker pen used for bingo cards”).

Said she wasn't going but she went still / Likes her gentlemen not to be gentle / Was it a Mecca dobber or a betting pencil?

2

A member of the working class in Scotland or Ireland who is seen as undereducated, with poor taste, especially in clothes, and poor social skills.

3

One who dobs (someone) (informs against them or implicates them to authority).

Nikki is such a dobber, she told the teacher that I hit Karen in the playground.

In awakening us to our powerlessness, whistleblowers produce all sorts of crisscrossed emotions. Should we respond to them as truth-bearing ethical citizens, or spiteful, griping dobbers?

4

Any small electronic device that plugs directly into a larger one, such as a wireless scoring system in fencing or a USB mass storage device.

5

A large marble.

They were the biggest rosary beads I ever saw, the beads were the size of big marbles or dobbers or taws. Dobbers and taws we used to play with in the channels beside the footpaths, when we used to play the road games.

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