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单词 deely bobber
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Deely bobbern.

/ˈdiːlɪˈbɒbə/
Forms: 1900s– Deeley bobber, 1900s– Deelie bobber, 1900s– Deely bobber. Also with lower-case initial in the first element.
Origin: Of uncertain origin; perhaps an arbitrary formation.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an arbitrary formation. The two senses may well show independent formations. With sense 2 perhaps compare earlier bobber n.2, with reference to the ornaments on the headgear bobbing up and down.
Chiefly U.S.
1. A proprietary name for a make of construction toy comprising a number of inter-linking building blocks. (Manufactured 1969–73.) U.S. temporary.
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Deely bobber1969
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1969 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 July tm15/2 Products of the Behavioral Sciences, Inc., San Jose, Calif. Filed Aug. 5, 1968. Deelie-bobbers for building toys.
1969 Telegraph (Brisbane) 2 July 46/5 Deelie Bobbers... They lobbed on my desk in a flower-patterned drawstring bag which, upended, sent 100 plastic daisy cutouts spilled every whichway.
1973 Toys Directory Issue LXXII. vi a. 206/2 Deelie Bobbers—Parker Brothers.
2. A proprietary name (in the U.S.) for a variety of children's novelty headgear consisting of a pair of ornaments (e.g. balls) attached antenna-like by springs or wires to a head-band.
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Deely bobber1982
1982 People 26 July 67/1 Those little plastic headbands with the springs, topped with glittery balls, pinwheels, stars or hearts, are called Deely Bobbers.
1982 New Statesman 24 Sept. 17 Deely-bobbers—the glittering, bouncing baubles on wire which are the latest craze in headgear—caused a row in a hospital's X-ray department when all the staff there decided to wear them at once.
1982 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Nov. tm578 Ace Novelty Co., Inc., Bellevue, Wash... Deely bobbers. For Novelty Item—Namely, a Head Band with Springs Carrying Ornaments... First use Dec. 4, 1981.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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