nobby
Americanadjective
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fashionable or elegant; stylish; chic.
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excellent; first-rate.
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Origin of nobby
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On the return walk to Belvedere Castle, I followed a corkscrew route through the densely forested and nobby Ramble.
From Washington Post
Looking out of the car window, he watched the automobiles going by, gaunt roadsters with battered mudguards, smug sedans with shiny spokes, nobby runabouts, sumptuous limousines, frail flivvers.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Rather a nobby place," was Dickens' description of Broadstairs, but old friends remember young Heath as rather nobody.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the dowdy bingo parlors of Clapham Junction to the nobby casinos of Mayfair, the British now spin the wheels of chance to the rhythm of $15 billion a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hazel picked a nobby purplish starfish from the bottom of the pool and popped it into his nearly full gunny sack.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
"The toffs are toffier and the nobs are nobbier," said one of these well-informed sources with a wink and a mysterious hitch of a tweedy shoulder.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 20, 2012
There's no life is nobbier Than to be a rob-bier, In the gloomy, gloomy, gloomy wood.
From Gaudeamus! Humorous Poems by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
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."
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas
I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going.
From Roughing It, Part 5. by Twain, Mark
Likewise he'd bought an automobile, one of the nobbiest kind.
From The Postmaster by Lincoln, Joseph C.
Wanted to know what was the use of being a nob if a fellow wasn’t the nobbiest sort of a nob.
From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by Lorimer, George Horace
Williams is "nobbiest" of third-story boys, bravest of Camanche warriors, but Williams doesn't dare refuse to go for that basket.
From St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various
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