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  • proper noun A Scottish form of Robbie, a short form of the male given name Robert.

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Examples

  • Here's a sad thing: For the last five months, I've lived in Scotland... and I have never really cared for Robert -- or as they call him here, "Rabbie" -- Burns.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Robert Burns, 1759-1796 tanita davis 2008

  • Here's a sad thing: For the last five months, I've lived in Scotland... and I have never really cared for Robert -- or as they call him here, "Rabbie" -- Burns.

    Archive 2008-01-01 a. fortis 2008

  • "My grandson Rabbie, that is; I've sixteen altogether, and the three o 'them named Robert, but the one's Bob and t'other Rob, and the wee one's Rabbie."

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Cranky Glaswegian politician John S. Clarke wrote in 1925: "To refer to Burns as 'Rabbie' at this stage in world history is a piece of disgusting insolence."

    A Birthday Toast to Scotland's Bard 2009

  • Burns Night, named after 18th century poet Robert "Rabbie" Burns, competes with St. Andrew's Day as a focus for traditionally whisky-fueled celebrations in Scotland and by Scots around the world. products from reliable chinese wholesalers on DHgate. com!

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

  • The heady poetry of "Rabbie" can intoxicate even more than the generous servings of single malt whisky.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • He was unhappy, and grim, and he gazed at the chairman Keith Vaz with the distaste that Rabbie Burns might have shown to a vegetarian haggis.

    Brodie Clark: no darling buddy of May 2011

  • And how Rabbie would have sang it - better audienc ...

    The First, Last and Only Word on this Fantastic day Alan Smart 2009

  • Henk J. M. Nellen and Edwin Rabbie Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994, 99–120.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Henk J. M. Nellen and Edwin Rabbie Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994, 99–120.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

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