dobbin

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Missy @dobbin: Don't get to cocky before you think it through.

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  1. noun A horse, especially a working farm horse.

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  • Missy @dobbin: Don't get to cocky before you think it through. —  Flopping Aces
  • They ignored the purpose of his speech: a call for unity / an ... dobbin It's so much fun to watch Republicans dig up any ATOM of discord to raise themselves up, so thoroughly has the party been trashed and cast aside. —  Flopping Aces
  • She is a madam though, I was sat on her after the first round, she was stood like a complete dobbin, when she started to get very excited stamping both her front feet on the ground.
  • There's Jones, the Red Cow, and Lewis, draper, are letting us have as much credit as we like; and they 'ouldn't let us have as much as a dobbin or a yard of tape before poor Griffey died Howel drank a wine-glass of raw brandy and went upstairs with the keys in his hand. —  Gladys, the Reaper
  • Well, sah, if you'll b'lieve me, he jes 'shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a-dobbin'. —  Tom Sawyer Abroad
 

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  1. From Dobbin, alteration of Robin, nickname for Robert.

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  1. A familiar use of the proper personal name Dobbin, which is a diminutive of Dob or Dobb (now more frequently in the patronymic form Dobbins, Dobbs), these being variations of Robin, Rob, diminutives of Robert. Cf. dicky, an ass, similarly derived from a diminutive of Richard.
 

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/ˈdɑbɪn/
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