| 释义 |
Bob, n.7|bɒb|
Also bob.
A pet form of the name Robert.
1. Hence, perhaps, the use of the word, in various combinations, denoting persons: as dry-bob, a boy (at Eton) who devotes himself to land-sports, as cricket, football, etc.; wet-bob, one who devotes himself to boating; light-bob, a soldier of the light infantry, or of a light company.
1721S. Centlivre Platon. Lady Epil., Some Cheapside-Bobbs too trudge it to our play. 1844Disraeli Coningsby I. ix. 102 ‘The match to-morrow shall be between Aquatics and Drybobs,’ said a senior boy. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xxxv. (1855) 282 Me, that never..listened to a light-bob. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxiv. (1853) 102 Mr. Stubble, as may be supposed from his size and slenderness, was of the Light Bobs. 1865W. L. C. Etoniana xi. 172 Of course a ‘dry-bob’ boats occasionally, and a ‘wet-bob’ plays cricket. 1886Sat. Rev. 27 Mar. ‘Reformed Eton’, We are not even informed whether he is a wet bob or a dry bob.
2. Short for bob-white.
1883Century Mag. Aug. 483/2 The European partridge..weighs twice as much as Bob White, but he has not Bob's sturdy, rapid..flight. 1902Sandys & Van Dyke Upland Game Birds 9 Then brave, brown Bob..enters Love's fateful lists.
3. Slang phr. Bob's (bob's) your uncle: everything is all right.
1937in Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 981/2. 1946 S. Spender Europ. Witness 143 He mixes up phrases such as ‘Oh boy, oh boy’, with cockney such as ‘Bob's-your-uncle’. 1949‘N. Blake’ Head of Traveller iv. 60 Three curves and a twiddle, label it ‘Object’, and bob's your uncle. |