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English
Etymology 1
Perhaps a blend of chew + gobble but perhaps instead from chop + -le (frequentative suffix).
Verb
chobble (third-person singular simple present chobbles, present participle chobbling, simple past and past participle chobbled)
- (Midlands, Yorkshire) To chew into small pieces.
1897, Hamilton Kingsford, Vigornian Monologues: A Series of Papers in Illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, Berrow's Worcester Journal Company, page 12:An’ I gets m’ pig ’ome, an’ ’e sims to turn out copital; ’e be sich a despret good cratcher, doan’t kip suckin’ an’ quiddlin’ at ’is fittle, but a chobbles it up like.
2000, Roy Holland, Just a Bit Touched: Tales of Perspective, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 3:“Can’t get used to the damn things,” he says. “Easier to chobble away like this.”
2013, Geoffrey Hill, edited by Kenneth Haynes, Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 368: / Chaos ordains. But to what depth? Some demon / chobbles its rap-cassette, spits out / pathetic dreadlocks.
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Which "pronunciation" is this meant to be? Caribbean, Jamaican? MLE?”)
Noun
chobble (countable and uncountable, plural chobbles)
- (nonstandard, pronunciation spelling) Alternative form of trouble.
2013, Jack Teeter, chapter 7, in Billie the Kid:“If ya give me chobble, mon, I gwann hang up!” he threatens.
Verb
chobble (third-person singular simple present chobbles, present participle chobbling, simple past and past participle chobbled)
- (nonstandard, pronunciation spelling) Alternative form of trouble.
2010, Prince S. Garrett, Blood on Babywipes, page 248:“Lissin mon, dunt chobble mi wit some ear-sey ‘bout wha yuh tink appen ta mi pickni an mi coac.”