湊合著拼出來的甜點
跟修鞋的 cobbler 之間只是一條方便記憶的連結，不是確定的歷史關係：兩者共有的都是「不求整齊、動手湊起來就能用」。
noun · B2
A hot sweet dish made of cooked fruit with a thick, soft, cake-like or biscuit-like topping baked over the top of it.
水果酥頂甜點
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 補鞋匠 · 胡說八道
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cobbler
noun核心畫面
Picture a low bench, a shoe held upside down, and a hand pressing a new sole onto a worn one. The work is patching: taking something that already exists and making it hold together again, quickly and by hand, without making it new. The result is useful rather than neat — a stitched seam shows, a heel is thicker than before. That rough, hand-put-together quality is the thread to hold on to when the word turns up somewhere unexpected, such as on a dessert menu.
可以想成一張矮凳、一隻倒著拿的鞋，還有一雙手把新鞋底壓上去。這個字的重心在「補」：拿已經有的東西，動手讓它再撐得住，…更多收起
可以想成一張矮凳、一隻倒著拿的鞋，還有一雙手把新鞋底壓上去。這個字的重心在「補」：拿已經有的東西，動手讓它再撐得住，而不是做一個新的。補完的樣子多半是堪用而不是漂亮——縫線看得到，鞋跟比原來厚一點。這種「手工湊合、粗粗地拼起來」的感覺，就是它跑到甜點菜單上時可以抓住的線索。From the word’s history
Cobbler comes from Middle English cobeler, 'a mender of shoes'. It looks like it was built from the verb cobble, 'to mend roughly, to patch', plus -er, but the noun is recorded much earlier, so the verb may in fact have been formed from the noun.
cobbler 來自中古英文 cobeler（修鞋的人）。表面上像是動詞 cobble（粗略地修補）加上 -er，但這個名詞出現的時間早得多，所以動詞反而可能是從名詞倒推出來的（依 Wiktionary 詞源）。不論先後，「粗粗地補起來」都是這一家字共有的重點。
Wiktionary etymology 1 supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:724654792)
From the picture
Also in this word
noun · B2
Someone whose job is mending shoes, and sometimes making them by hand.
補鞋匠
A second word, same spelling
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cobbler
noun核心畫面
This is a separate centre, and nothing in it has to do with shoes or fruit. Picture someone finishing a tall story, and a friend cutting straight across it with one flat word. The word is not chosen for its meaning at all; it was picked long ago because it rhymed with a rude word, and the rude word is what is really being thrown. That is why it only works in the plural, why it lands harder than 'that's not true', and why it still sounds a bit blunt to older British ears.
這是另一個中心，跟鞋子和水果都沒有關係。可以想成有人正在吹一個誇張的故事，朋友用一個字直接打斷他。這個字本身的意思並…更多收起
這是另一個中心，跟鞋子和水果都沒有關係。可以想成有人正在吹一個誇張的故事，朋友用一個字直接打斷他。這個字本身的意思並不重要。它當年被選中，是因為跟一個粗話押韻，真正丟出去的是那個粗話。所以它只有複數才成立，語氣也比 that's not true 重一些，有些上了年紀的英國人聽起來還是覺得有點粗。From the word’s history
The packet records this as a separate origin: cobbler's awls used as rhyming slang for a rude word, with the plural cobblers then taking on the meaning 'nonsense'.
資料把這一條列為獨立的來源：cobbler's awls（補鞋匠的錐子）被拿來當押韻俚語，代替一個粗話，之後複數的 cobblers 就轉出「胡說」的意思（依 Wiktionary 詞源 7）。所以它跟修鞋的 cobbler 只是發音上的巧合，不是意思上的延伸。
Wiktionary etymology 7 supplied in this evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:724749572)