the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A squabble; a row; a disturbance: as, to kick up a bobbery.
Word Usage
"She was also full of sage counsel, advising marriage with a warm girl having "nice things at her -- nice lands and pigs and things" -- as a ready way to square the "bobbery" of thirty years ago at Ballawhaine."