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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

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

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Nobby

A diminutive of the male given name Norbert.
- 2009 Jeff Carlisle, Soccer's Most Wanted II, Potomac Books, Inc., ISBN 1597971936, page 234:
  
  Nobby Stiles
  
  Norbert is a moniker one normally doesn't associate with one of the game's most intimidating midfielders, but "Nobby" provided the steel for the England side that prevailed in the 1966 World Cup, and his gap-toothed visage would have earned him a guest spot in the movie Halloween.
A diminutive of the female given name Zenobia.
- 1855 Watts Phillips, The Wild Tribes of London, page 49:
  There's Nobby, now―here he indicates Zenobia with his pipe―"as has 'ad a whole cartload o' troubles, besides me a riding on the shafts, an' that's bad enough, an't it, Nobby?"

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nobby ‎(comparative nobbier, superlative nobbiest)

(Britain) Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
- c. 1852-1853, Charles Dickens, 1876, Levi C. Goodale, Charlie Lulledge (editors), Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak House, page 106,
  I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavor to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter, and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet.
- 1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, page 291,
  " […] What makes it worse,” she continued, in the extremity of confidence, “I heard those two cricketing men say just now, 'She's the nobbiest girl on the boat.' But I don't mind it, you know, Harry."
(US) Fashionable or chic.
- 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 2007, page 152,
  Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.
- 1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in The New Yorker, page 25,
  Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.
- 1933, Josephine Herbst, Pity Is Not Enough, page 37,
  Alcibiades, was the nobbiest boy in Greece.