Random thought: I wonder if true cobblers resent the modern connotation of “cobbled together” more or less meaning “to haphazardly assemble”. I would hope my cobbler isn’t cobbling together my shoes!
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Jarrod Blundy
Just looked it up the OED and the first use in that sense is from 1589: “To expresse that which the Greeks could do by cobling many words together.” Interestingly the derivation is unclear, but they say cobbler was used much earlier.
cobbled together shoes where made from scraps of stuff left over. You might get bits cobbled together for a cheep pair, but they were different to those made by a shoemaker.
In Norway we use «å koble sammen» (to link together) about anything that is linked together in some way or another. I think koble/cobble has the same root.
@gregmorris Ahh
@odd Words are cool!
@snptrs The Greeks! I don’t know why that surprises me, but it does.
I think there’s a similar, older thing with ‘bodge’. A bodger was a furniture maker, but you wouldn’t want a bodged job (or botch job) of your furniture, or anything else
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodg…
@mattypenny Oh! Didn’t know that. I like new words.