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Bobby

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɒbi//
  • United States//ˈbɑbi//

A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given name Robert.

    It was a real irritation to Robert's parents to hear Adeline call him Bobby. They tried to intimate their disapproval by pronouncing his name very distinctly when they addressed him.

    Legendary soul singer Bobby Womack died Friday, Womack’s publicist said. He was 70.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Roberta.

Etymology

Etymology tree English Bob Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Bobby From Bob + -y.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).