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单词 kelpie
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kelpie

noun
/ˈkelpi/
/ˈkelpi/
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  1. (in Scottish stories) a water spirit, especially one that takes the form of a horse
  2. an Australian sheepdog
  3. Word Originlate 17th cent.: perhaps from Scottish Gaelic cailpeach, colpach ‘bullock, colt’. Sense (2) apparently comes from the name of a particular bitch, King's Kelpie (c.1879).
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