E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
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.
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“The Dobby’s walk was within the inhabited domains of the Hall.”—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak, chap. x.
