Lexic.us

Definition of Nobby

1. a. Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.

Definition of Nobby

1. Proper noun. (diminutive=Norbert male given name). ¹

2. Proper noun. (diminutive=Zenobia female given name). ¹

3. Adjective. Fashionable or chic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nobby

1. elegant [adj -BIER, -BIEST] - See also: elegant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobby

Literary usage of Nobby

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

1. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"THE nobby HEAD OF HAIR. YOU'VE called on me to sing a song, I'll try what I can do, I don't say whether good or bad, for that I'll leave to you, ..."

2. Modern Street Ballads by John Ashton (1888)
"There's no one in this street can sport such a nobby head of hair. Perhaps you think I'm bragging, but the proof it is most clear, If you only twig the ..."

3. A Lawyer's Idle Hours: Sentiment-satire-humor-life-death-glory by C. Augustus Haviland (1902)
"The charming little maid that goes traveling down the glade Is the old soldier's nobby little daughter; She tries her winning ways when the boys upon her ..."

4. A Lawyer's Idle Hours: Sentiment-satire-humor-life-death-glory by C. Augustus Haviland (1902)
"The charming little maid that goes traveling down the glade Is the old soldier's nobby little daughter; She tries her winning ways when the boys upon her ..."

5. Life with the Trotters by John Splan (1889)
"The buy gelding nobby was the most peculiar horse that I ever trained or drove. ... nobby belonged to Mr. Gordon, he having bought him in Kentucky for $5000 ..."

6. Life with the Trotters by John Splan (1889)
"CHAPTER X. nobby, the most peculiar horse Splan ever drove; a wild, scary fellow that had a wonderful flight of speed—The race at Cleveland in which nobby ..."

7. Pugilistica: The History of British Boxing Containing Lives of the Most by Henry Downes Miles (1906)
"Clarke shy and sparring, Paddock on to him. when "nobby "threw Tom a ... Paddock, game as a pebble, went in, and though " nobby " met him in the head, ..."

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