"Funking the cobbler" Definition

Definitions for the word "Funking the cobbler" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. slang
a bold schoolboy trick, performed with assafœtida and cotton stuffed into a hollow tube or cow’s horn. The cotton being lighted, the smoke is blown in through the keyhole of a door, or the crannies of a cobbler’s stall. A funny song, much in vogue some years back, gave all the agonies of a drunken cobbler, who believed the devil had come for him, with all sorts of accessories, till “He was told by a shout That ’twas only some boys who’d been FUNKING him out.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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