Cobbler
/ˈkɒb.lər/noun
A person who repairs or makes shoes, or a baked fruit dessert with a biscuit-like topping.
Did you know?The dessert sense appeared in nineteenth-century American English, probably because its irregular biscuit topping looked like a roughly cobbled surface.
Etymological Timeline
Late Middle English
English
cobeler
“A maker or mender of shoes”
15th Century
English
cobbler
“A person who repairs footwear”
16th Century
English
cobble
“To mend or patch roughly, especially a shoe”
17th Century
English
cobbler
“A shoemaker or repairer; the occupational sense becomes established”
19th Century
American English
cobbler
“A fruit dish covered with a rough, biscuit-like crust”
Modern English
English
cobbler
“A shoe repairer or a baked fruit dessert”