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单词 bobby
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bobbyn.

Brit. /ˈbɒbi/, U.S. /ˈbɑbi/
Etymology: < Bobby, pet form of Bob, familiar perversion of Robert.
1. [Probably in allusion to the name of Mr. (afterwards Sir) Robert Peel, who was Home Secretary when the new Metropolitan Police Act was passed in 1828.] A slang nickname for a policeman. See also peeler n.3
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1844 Sessions' Paper June 341 I heard her say..‘a bobby’..it was a signal to let them know a policeman was coming.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 16/1 He could muzzle half a dozen bobbies before breakfast.
1877 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan (new ed.) ii. xxiii. 367 [He] might have been killed only that the bobbies interfered.
1884 L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers II. xiv. 17 Frequently when the constables made their appearance..they were hooted and insulted, mobs following them crying out ‘crusher’, ‘raw lobster’, ‘Bobbies’, and ‘Peelers’.
2. bobby wren n. (dialect): see quot. 1885.
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1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 35 Wren..From its short bob-tail it has the names of Cutty or Cut..Bobby wren (Norfolk), [etc.].
3. In full bobby calf, an unweaned calf slaughtered soon after birth. Cf. bob-veal n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > calf > [noun] > for slaughter
veal1422
veal calf?1556
staggering bob1780
stocker1881
killer1897
vealer1901
bobby calf1927
1927 Meat Trades Jrnl. 16 June 1209/7 Central Meat Market..Veal: Moderate supply of fat calves..bobbies very short and dear.
1928 Auckland Weekly News 26 July 58/3 30,000 bobby calves, mostly from the Waikato, were exported..last season as boneless veal.
1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 15/5 Veal..specials 8s.–9s., bobbies 4s.–5s.
1938 N.Z. Statutory Regulations 334Bobby calf’ means a calf which is intended for slaughter for human consumption as boneless veal.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 11/1 Scotch bobbies, 1s. 4d. to 1s. 6d.
1965 Economist 2 Oct. 70/2 In the past, the calf of a pure dairy cow, unless she was a heifer and so a potential milk-factory, was classed as a useless ‘bobby’ calf fit only for veal.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bobbyv.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: bob v.1; bob v.2
Etymology: Perhaps a variant of bob v.1 or bob v.2; compare -y suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbobby.
Obsolete. rare.
? = bob v.1 2, or bob v.2 1.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (transitive)]
teleeOE
laughOE
bismerc1000
heascenc1000
hethec1175
scornc1175
hokera1225
betell?c1225
scorn?c1225
forhushc1275
to make scorn at, toc1320
boba1382
bemow1388
lakea1400
bobby14..
triflea1450
japec1450
mock?c1450
mowc1485
to make (a) mock at?a1500
to make mocks at?a1500
scrip?a1513
illude1516
delude1526
deride1530
louta1547
to toy with ——1549–62
flout1551
skirp1568
knack1570
to fart against1574
frump1577
bourd1593
geck?a1600
scout1605
subsannate1606
railly1612
explode1618
subsannea1620
dor1655
monkeya1658
to make an ass of (someone)1680
ridicule1680
banter1682
to run one's rig upon1735
fun1811
to get the run upon1843
play1891
to poke mullock at1901
razz1918
flaunt1923
to get (or give) the razoo1926
to bust (a person's) chops1953
wolf1966
pimp1968
14.. MS Add. 11748 (Halliw.) f. 145 The clooth byfore þi eyen to, To bobby þe [Christ] þay knit hit so.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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