(in Scottish stories 蘇格蘭傳說 a water spirit, especially one that takes the form of a horse 水妖 an Australian sheepdog （澳大利亞）卡爾比犬
Word Originlate 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).