chobble

Perhaps a Blend of chew +‎ gobble but perhaps instead from chop +‎ -le (early modern English frequentative suffix)

chobble (third-person singular simple present chobbles, present participle chobbling, simple past and past participle chobbled)

1. (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. […]

chobble (countable and uncountable, plural chobbles)

1. (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.

chobble (third-person singular simple present chobbles, present participle chobbling, simple past and past participle chobbled)

1. (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.”