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Dobby’s Walk

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The goblin’s haunt or beat. Dobby is an archaic word for a goblin or brownie. (See Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall, ii. 183–6.) Dobby also means an imbecile old man.

“The Dobby’s walk was within the inhabited domains of the Hall.”—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. x.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Dizzy
Djinnestan
Do
Do (to rhyme with go)
Do for
Do up (To)
Doab (Indian)
Dobbin
Dobbins (Humphrey)
Dobby’s Walk
Docetes
Dock-Alfar
Dock-side Lumper (A)
Dock Warrant (A)
Doctor
Doctor (The)
Doctor (The)
Doctored Dice
Dr. Diafoirus
Dr. Dove