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bobbie

bobbie is the obsolete form of bobby.

Meaning of bobby

Noun (1)

bobby (plural bobbies)

  1. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang) A 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?1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
  2. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang) A railway signaller.

Noun (2)

bobby (plural bobbies)

  1. (Scotland, slang) A penis.
  2. (Multicultural-London-English) 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 bobby2017, “Next Up?”, Digga D (lyrics), performed by 1011 (Digga D x Sav'O x T.Y)
  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 breeds1970, Great Britain. Milk Marketing Board. Breeding and Production Organization, Report of the Breeding and Production Organization
  4. A banana that is extra small in size.
    • My kids like bobby bananas, but they're in plastic.2017 June 14, Sarah Catherall, “I tried to live plastic free for a week and it's impossible”, in The Press

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Proper noun capitalized: Bobbie

Bobbie

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Robert.
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.

Forms of bobbie

Noun
pluralbobbies
Proper noun
alternative formBobby
alternative formBobbi

Words formed from bobbie

Questions about bobbie

What does bobbie mean?
Bobbie means a diminutive of the male given name Robert.
What is bobbie the obsolete form of?
Bobbie is the obsolete form of bobby.
What part of speech is bobbie?
Bobbie is a proper noun.

Words near bobbie in the dictionary

  1. bobbery pack
  2. bobbery packs
  3. bobbery-bob
  4. bobbes
  5. Bobbi
  6. bobbie
  7. bobbies
  8. Bobbikins
  9. Bobbili
  10. Bobbilis
  11. bobbin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bobbie (page history and authors); Bobbie (page history and authors); bobby (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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