Dobby’s Walk
. 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.