单词 | bobby |
释义 | bobbyn. 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 ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 334 ‘Bobby 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. Obsolete. rare. ? = bob v.1 2, or bob v.2 1. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1844v.14.. |
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