| 单词 | four bob robbo |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfour bob robbo A horse and trap, esp. one in a ramshackle condition; the driver or hirer of one of these. In extended use: an inferior, substandard, or decrepit person or thing. Also four bob robbo. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] poornessa1382 chaffc1386 cold roast?1406 arse-guta1413 short end1560 under-kind1571 inferior1589 canvas-back1605 underthing1620 under-sort1655 wasteling1750 slouch1767 shamea1771 neck beefa1777 rep1786 wastrel1790 wastera1800 shoddy1862 piece1884 tinhorn1887 robbo1897 cheapie1898 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1916 dog1917 stinkeroo1934 bodgie1964 cheapo1975 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > inferior or old and worn-out brockc1000 stota1100 jadec1386 yaud?a1513 roila1529 tit1548 hilding1590 tireling1590 dog horsec1600 baffle1639 Rosinante1641 aver1691 keffel1699 runt1725 hack horse1760 rip1775 kadisha1817 dunghill1833 pelter1854 crow-bait1857 caster1859 plug1860 knacker1864 plug horse1872 crock1879 skate1894 robbo1897 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of horse and trap robbo1897 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled > sulky or trotting cart sulky1756 trotting-sulky1883 robbo1897 trotter1902 jinker1916 spider1945 1897 Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Jan. 11/3 ‘Robbo’ (Sydney slang for the vehicle ordinarily called a ‘sulky’). 1897 Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Jan. 11/3 ‘Robbo’ has in an extensive Sydney circle come to mean anything unsatisfactory. For instance, a girl enters a jeweller's shop with: ‘Watcher been givin' us? Look at the clasp of this 'ere bracelet I bought of yer last week. It's gone bung already. It's a fair robbo.’ 1897 Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Jan. 11/3 Also ‘robbo’ has come to mean amateur: a well-known amateur cross-country horseman..when he went out to ride in a 'chase, the other day, was amiably greeted with, ‘Hello, Robbo—going ter break yer bloomin' neck.’ 1906 A. J. Tompkins With Swag & Billy 51 Right out of the haunts of the motor, the bike and the Robbo. 1909 R. Kaleski Austral. Settler's Compl. Guide 20 Carefully avoid delivery vans, ‘robbo’ fruit carts and such like, they are too wide and heavy. 1939 K. Tennant Foveaux iv. v. 430 Old Bob Noblett, 'e's an old man now, but I can remember when Bob Noblett was a four-bob robbo. 1956 Collins New Eng. Dict. (Austral. & N.Z. Suppl.) 1279/2 Robbo, Four-Bob-Robbo, a horse and sulky... Now used only for a decrepit horse. < as lemmas |
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