词汇 | bobbasheely |
词源 | bobbasheely. “You and Sweet Thing bobbasheely on back to the hotel now,” William Faulkner has a character say in The Reivers (1962). Bobbasheely means “to walk in no great rush but to move on,” “to saunter.” It can also mean a very close friend—in fact, it is said to derive from a Choctaw Indian word for “my brother.” |
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