喜樂美語
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    Dobbin is a pet name for a farm horse — the quiet, slow kind that pulls a cart or a plough and does not hurry. Children’s stories and old country talk use it the way they use Fido for a dog: not one famous horse, but the idea of a kind . You would not name a Dobbin. Today it sounds old and storybook. If you meet it, you are probably in a tale, a poem, or someone joking that a car or a person is as slow as an old horse. The name started as Dobb, an old short form of Robert, with a ending stuck on, and then people used Dobbin as a usual name for a .

    童話裡農家馬的名字（温馴的老工作馬）

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組成From Dobb, a medieval short form of Robert, plus -en; the same idea as Bobby. Later it became a usual name for a workhorse.

同家族的字

  • RobertDobbin started as a pet form of this name
  • Bobbyboth began as pet names for Robert
  • Dobbiesame old nickname Dobb, with a different ending

原始詞典資料7 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。

Dobbinname

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    A surname originating as a patronymic.

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    A pet name given to workhorses, and by extension, a placeholder name used for any workhorse, much like John Q. Public and other such placeholders are used for people.

    • Early automobiles were a menace to old Dobbin
    • […] thou haſt got more haire on thy chin, then Dobbin my phillhorſe has on his taile.
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    An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Texas, United States.

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    An unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States.

dobbinnoun/ˈdɒbɪn/

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    An old jaded horse.

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    dialectalSea gravel mixed with sand.

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    datedslangSynonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)

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。