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#1 2008-04-17 12:22:22

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'bobbling for apples' for 'bobbing for apples'

This is inspired by the recent discussion of apple bobbing under the entry for duck/dunk. It’s the apple that’s bobbling while you bob for it, but close enough. 100+ghits:

... Halloween growing up and passing on the fun traditions of dressing up in costume, bobbling for apples (germs and all) and trick or treating.
www.beadsandbaublesny.com/wordpress/?m=200609 – 34k – Cached – Similar pages

The games were fish toss and bobbling for apples.
orange.utb.edu/sigmapsidelta/newsletter2nd.doc

You can also take a large galvanized bucket and play bobbling for apples…
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070619184220AA52vKi

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#2 2008-04-18 02:29:03

patschwieterman
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From: California
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 1680

Re: 'bobbling for apples' for 'bobbing for apples'

“Bopping for apples” also gets 84 raw hits. Maybe people are thinking of the squirming that the non-submerged parts of a bobber’s body do while bobbing. Or maybe speakers are just anticipating that unvoiced stop in “apples.”

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