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# bobble

«bobble» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small soft ball of wool on top of a woolly hat or on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bobble, bobbles); verb (bobble, bobbles, bobbled, bobbling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK) A bobble is a small soft ball of wool on top of a woolly hat or on the end of a string; a bobble hat has one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#m1)

2) A bobble is also a tiny ball of fluff that forms on an old jumper or blanket after a lot of wear (also called a pill). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#m2)

3) (verb) To bobble means to bounce or move up and down unsteadily, like a ball on bumpy ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#m3)

4) (US, sport) To bobble the ball means to fumble it, to fail to catch or hold it cleanly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it comes in winter clothing (bobble hat) and in clothes that look old (a bobbly jumper). In sport commentary a ball bobbles on a bumpy pitch, and in American baseball and football a player bobbles a catch. Phrases: bobble hat, bobble on top, the ball bobbled.

### examples

- Grandma knitted me a red hat with a big bobble on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#x1)
- My old jumper is covered in little bobbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#x2)
- Put on your bobble hat, it's freezing outside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#x3)
- The ball bobbled over the bumpy grass and the goalie missed it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#x4)
- The shortstop bobbled the ball and the runner reached first base. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#x5)
- The toy boat bobbled on the waves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#x6)
- She uses a little shaver to take the bobbles off her cardigan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/#x7)

### note

Countable noun: a bobble, bobbles. Verb past form: bobbled (double b, then -le, drop e: bobbling). Adjective: bobbly (a bobbly jumper). In the US a hat bobble is usually called a pom-pom, and a hat with one a knit cap or beanie with a pom-pom. Do not confuse with «bubble» (a ball of air in liquid) or «bauble» (a shiny decoration).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bobble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bobble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.