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/ˈbɑːbi/ · /ˈbɒbi/
A friendly British word for a police officer, especially one who walks around the streets to help people.
(英國口語)警察
複數 bobbies
核心畫面
Picture a British police officer on foot, walking a beat through the streets in a tall helmet, nodding to people and keeping an eye out — 'bobby' is the friendly, everyday name for that familiar neighbourhood policeman.
可以想成一個在英國街上走巡邏的警察:戴著高帽,一路走過街區,跟人點點頭、留意四周。bobby 就是對這種街頭巡邏警察…更多收起
可以想成一個在英國街上走巡邏的警察:戴著高帽,一路走過街區,跟人點點頭、留意四周。bobby 就是對這種街頭巡邏警察親切、口語的叫法。From the word’s history
From 'Bobby', a pet form of 'Robert', after Sir Robert Peel, who as Home Secretary set up London's Metropolitan Police in 1829. His new officers were nicknamed 'bobbies' in his honour — so the word literally carries the founder's first name.
來自 Robert 的暱稱 Bobby,指的是 Robert Peel 爵士——他在 1829 年以內政大臣身分創立了倫敦大都會警察。這批新警察就用他的名字被暱稱為 bobbies,所以這個字本身就藏著創辦人的名字。
wordhistories.net/2018/03/17/bobby-peeler-police/; Britannica 'bobby' (pet form of Robert, after Robert Peel)
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Bobbyname/ˈbɑbi/
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A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
- It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.
- Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.
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A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.
bobbynoun詞源 1/ˈbɒbi/
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slangA police officer.
- If I am wrong, and if Lessingham’s wrong, how do you explain his extraordinary insistence on taking it inside the cab with him, which the bobby describes?
- "We are looking at being able to fly [drones] tens of miles from base, which is going to make a huge difference. It is the equivalent of having bobbies on the beat."
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slangA railway signaller.
bobbynoun詞源 2/ˈbɒbi/
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slangA penis.
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Cocaine.
- Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
- Bad one wanna give man toppy She wanna suck off, follow my crew! On the backroad serving molly, she been battling bad for the bobby Saying she is sick: It's not a flu
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A calf that is slaughtered in its first month, usually because it has no mother or because it is undersized or otherwise defective.
- The already low proportion of Friesian and Hereford Friesian cross calves sold as bobbies declined to almost insignificant proportions and there was a very steep drop in the proportion of bobby calves in the other breeds
- The following is the Victorian code of practice as it refers to the welfare of bobby calves.
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A banana that is extra small in size.
- My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。