Definition of Nabobery

1. the state of being a nabob [n -ERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nabobery

nabbing
nabe
nabes
nabesite
nabiasite
nabilone
nabis
nabks
nabla
nablas
nablock
nablocks
nabob
naboberies
nabobery (current term)
nabobess
nabobesses
nabobish
nabobism
nabobisms
nabobs
nabobship
nabobships
nabokoite
naboom
naboot
naboots
nabothian cyst
nabothian follicle

Literary usage of Nabobery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1868)
">s the region of calico shirts, returned writers, and guinea-pigs grown into bores, such ig the nabobery into which Harley-street, Wimpole-street, ..."

2. The History of the Squares of London: Topographical & Historical by Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1907)
"... while a writer in the New Monthly Magazine, about 1837, waxed highly satirical over what he was pleased to term the " nabobery." " Enter it," he wrote, ..."

3. On the History and Use of the Suffixes -ery (-ry), -age, and -ment in English by Fredrik Gadde (1910)
"... 16-; fairy 'enchantment, magic' 1300—1533, nabobery 'essential qualities of a nabob' 1852, ropery 'knavery, trickery' (1536 — 1871), ..."

4. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1868)
">s the region of calico shirts, returned writers, and guinea-pigs grown into bores, such ig the nabobery into which Harley-street, Wimpole-street, ..."

5. The History of the Squares of London: Topographical & Historical by Edwin Beresford Chancellor (1907)
"... while a writer in the New Monthly Magazine, about 1837, waxed highly satirical over what he was pleased to term the " nabobery." " Enter it," he wrote, ..."

6. On the History and Use of the Suffixes -ery (-ry), -age, and -ment in English by Fredrik Gadde (1910)
"... 16-; fairy 'enchantment, magic' 1300—1533, nabobery 'essential qualities of a nabob' 1852, ropery 'knavery, trickery' (1536 — 1871), ..."

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