corrobory

English

Noun

corrobory (plural corrobories)

  1. Alternative form of corroboree
    • 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
      And he rattled, thumped, brandished his thunderbox, yelled, shouted, raved, roared, stamped, and danced corrobory like any black fellow; and then he touched a spring in the thunderbox, and out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies and spring-heeled Jacks and sallaballas […]
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