kelpie
noun /ˈkelpi/
/ˈkelpi/
- (in Scottish stories
) a water spirit, especially one that takes the form of a horse苏格兰传说 水妖 - an Australian sheepdog
(澳大利亚)卡尔比犬
词源late 17th cent.: perhaps from Scottish Gaelic cailpeach, colpach ‘bullock, colt’. Sense (2) apparently comes from the name of a particular bitch, King's Kelpie (c.1879).