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This week's theme Illustrated words This week's words smalto agnosia chouse cobber rimy Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg cobber PRONUNCIATION: (KOB-uhr) MEANING: noun: A pal. ETYMOLOGY: Cobber is an old-fashioned Australianism. It's perhaps derived from English dialect cob (take a liking to). Cartoonist: Doug Pike habitue: a habitual visitor to a place mutch: a linen cap worn by old women and babies. USAGE: "Farewell cobber, it's been a blast." Jane Wright; First Word; Sunday Herald (Glasgow, UK); Sep 26, 2004. Explore "cobber" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: What you cannot enforce, do not command. -Sophocles, dramatist (495?-406 BCE)

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