Words that rhyme with cobble

  • bauble
    n 1: a mock scepter carried by a court jester 2: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]
  • bobble
    n 1: the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
  • boggle
    v 1: startle with amazement or fear 2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear 3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]
  • boondoggle
    n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
  • bottle
    n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped 2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle, bottleful] 3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle] v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles 2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
  • caudal
    adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally, caudal] adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage" [ant: cephalic] 2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike] 3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the body"
  • cockle
    n 1: common edible European bivalve 2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit]
  • coddle
    v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge] 2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
  • debacle
    n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [syn: debacle, fiasco] 2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer 3: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
  • glottal
    adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal stops"
  • gobble
    n 1: the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock v 1: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!" [syn: gobble, bolt] 2: make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys
  • goggle
    v 1: look with amazement; look stupidly [syn: goggle, gape, gawp, gawk]
  • hobble
    n 1: a shackle for the ankles or feet [syn: fetter, hobble] 2: the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg [syn: hitch, hobble, limp] v 1: walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; "The old woman hobbles down to the store every day" [syn: limp, gimp, hobble, hitch] 2: hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean" 3: strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison; "hobble race horses" [syn: hopple, hobble]
  • joggle
    n 1: a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together [syn: dowel, dowel pin, joggle] 2: a slight irregular shaking motion [syn: joggle, jiggle] v 1: move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!" [syn: jiggle, joggle, wiggle] 2: fasten or join with a joggle
  • model
    adj 1: worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens" [syn: exemplary, model(a)] n 1: a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems" [syn: model, theoretical account, framework] 2: a type of product; "his car was an old model" 3: a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos" [syn: model, poser] 4: representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) [syn: model, simulation] 5: something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general" [syn: exemplar, example, model, good example] 6: someone worthy of imitation; "every child needs a role model" [syn: model, role model] 7: a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example" [syn: model, example] 8: a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model] 9: the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) [syn: model, modelling, modeling] v 1: plan or create according to a model or models [syn: model, pattern] 2: form in clay, wax, etc; "model a head with clay" [syn: model, mold, mould] 3: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose, sit, posture] 4: display (clothes) as a mannequin; "model the latest fashion" 5: create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights" [syn: model, simulate] 6: construct a model of; "model an airplane" [syn: model, mock up]
  • mottle
    n 1: an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" v 1: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained [syn: mottle, streak, blotch] 2: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud]
  • nobble
    v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift] 3: take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped" [syn: kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch] 4: disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses"
  • squabble
    n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]
  • stopple
    n 1: blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly [syn: plug, stopper, stopple] v 1: close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers" [syn: stopper, stopple]
  • throttle
    n 1: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine [syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve] 2: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun] v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle, strangulate, throttle] 3: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke, throttle]
  • toddle
    v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
  • toggle
    n 1: any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time 2: a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions [syn: toggle switch, toggle, on-off switch, on/off switch] 3: a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable) v 1: provide with a toggle or toggles 2: fasten with, or as if with, a toggle 3: release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"
  • topple
    v 1: fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" [syn: tumble, topple] 2: cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: topple, tumble, tip]
  • twaddle
    n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
  • waddle
    n 1: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle" v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
  • wobble
    n 1: an unsteady rocking motion v 1: move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street" [syn: wobble, coggle] 2: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt] 3: tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion" [syn: shimmy, wobble]
  • chernobyl
    n 1: a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
  • aristotle
    n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
  • knobble
    n 1: a small knob
  • popple
  • beall
  • mabile
  • nobile
  • robl
  • snabel
  • strobl
  • amabile
  • mirabile
  • avitabile
  • fauble
  • kauble
  • obol

See also cobble definition and cobble synonyms