Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A horse, especially a working farm horse.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A common English name for a work-horse.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An old jaded horse.
- n. Prov. Eng. Sea gravel mixed with sand.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a quiet plodding workhorse
Etymologies
- From Dobbin, alteration of Robin, nickname for Robert. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
““Does he live there?” asks the black bonnet of the gray coat; and the hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furrow, and recommends a little chip dirt, or any little waste stuff, or it may be ashes or plaster.”
“The tale of how He coming unexpectedly home found Him with Her was then put through its paces with such skilful jockeying that not one in ten would know it for the same dobbin so lately brought limping to the light.”
“Well, sah, if you'll b'lieve me, he jes 'shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a-dobbin'.”
“An 'if you'll b'lieve it, she won't talk picters nor make any sence she got back -- only, jest after she got back, she said she didn't see any use o' her goin 'on dobbin' good canvas up with good paint, an 'makin' nothin 'but poor picters; an' she cried some ....”
“The meal was put in the wagon, the horse unhitched, the wagon mounted, the goad picked up and a thrust made, but dobbin was in no hurry.”
“Does he live there?" asks the black bonnet of the gray coat; and the hard-featured farmer reins up his grateful dobbin to inquire what you are doing where he sees no manure in the furrow, and recommends a little chip dirt, or any little waste stuff, or it may be ashes or plaster.”
“It seems Stateside audiences have fallen for the story of Albert the Devon farmboy who goes searching for his beloved dobbin, Joey, on the battlefields of the first world war every bit as fervently as we Brits - and none more so than”
“Foreigners browsing Italian shops for baby food can be startled to find jars bearing the picture of a noble chestnut dobbin.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dobbin’.
-
horses
everything horses
horse, bay, bloodhorse, bloodstock, bolter, broncho, bronco, brumby, bucker, buckjumper, cob, cocktail and 200 more...
-
phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
-
words that trip off the tongue
ideology, phallocentric, parapraxis, gelid, illusion, tangible, tangibility, crux, medusa, noir, chloroform, chap and 98 more...
-
sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
-
Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
-
Greg's Words
frippet, furtive, gimcrack, indefatigable, vicissitudes, pedant, ziggurat, susurrus, sub rosa, rodomontade, interregnum, abscise and 168 more...
-
perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
-
kingtaj's Words
lament, dissonant, fontanelle, languor, sallow, dalliance, dolor, iniquity, myrrh, cardamom, balmy, bemusement and 76 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dobbin.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.