cobber

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another. Australia,dated,slang
    — What's up, cobber?
  2. A sweet consisting of a small block of hard caramel covered in chocolate. Australia

词形变化

cobbers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cobber up

词源

Uncertain. Perhaps from Yiddish חבֿר (khaver, “friend, comrade”), from Hebrew חבר (ḥāḇēr, “friend”), possibly via Dutch gabber; alternately, perhaps from the British dialectal term cob (“take a liking to”), or a conflation of both. The suggestion that it is a self-referential collective term for convicts and immigrants who departed for Australian shores from the Irish port of Cobh seems chronologically unlikely.
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