bobbery

A disturbance, row, or squabble; a term much used in the East Indies and China.

← bob × bobbing →

Bobbery
·noun A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
bobbery
A squabble, a row; common both in England and America.--Moor, Forby. That woke up the confounded ro...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.