Bob Lincoln
English edit
Etymology edit
Imitative of the bird's call, like bobolink.
Noun edit
Bob Lincoln (plural Bob Lincolns)
- (US, Canada) The bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus).
- 1840, Philip Henry Gosse, The Canadian naturalist : a series of conversations on the natural history of Lower Canada, page 131:
- […] my first impression was, "there is a Bob Lincoln."