Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bobbery

Bobbery ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Probably an Anglo-Indian form of Hindi bāp re O thou father! (a very disrespectful address).]

A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] — Halliwell