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  1. 1nB2/ˈbɑːbi/ · /ˈbɒbi/（英國口語）警察

    口語A friendly British word for a police officer, especially one who walks around the streets to help people.

    示範例句 · Example

    When Mei got lost in London, a kind bobby showed her the way to the station.

    逐字當美在倫敦迷路時，一位親切的警察指給她去車站的路。

    bobby 是英國人對「警察」的親切口語說法，特別指在街上巡邏、會幫路人的那種警察，感覺友善、日常，不像 police officer 那麼正式。這個字可以想成從創立英國警察制度的 Robert Peel（大家暱稱他 Bobby）的名字長出來的，所以帶著一點「街坊警察」的味道。

    常見搭配

    • a friendly bobby

      親切的（英國）警察

      a kind, approachable British police officer

      A friendly bobby helped the old man cross the busy road.

    • bobby on the beat

      在固定區域徒步巡邏的警察

      a police officer who patrols a set area on foot

      People feel safer when there is a bobby on the beat every evening.

    意思相近

    policemanpolice officercopcopperconstable

core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)

複數 bobbies

意思相近

policemanpolice officercopcopperconstable

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.

bobbynoun詞源 1/ˈbɒbi/

  • 1

    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."
  • 2

    slangA railway signaller.

bobbynoun詞源 2/ˈbɒbi/

  • 1

    slangA penis.

  • 2

    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
  • 3

    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.
  • 4

    A banana that is extra small in size.

    • My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。