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
Open golf championship was staged at nobby Newport in 1895; not until the 45th took place last week was America's No. 1 golfing event held south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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
A forlorn, jailbird’s face with a nobby forehead running back into a bald scalp, a crooked nose and battered-looking cheekbones above which the eyes were fierce and watchful.
From "1984" by George Orwell
"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 Joseph Victor von Scheffel
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 Thomas Hardy
Likewise he'd bought an automobile, one of the nobbiest kind.
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
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
Of the ladies who on this occasion took part, Some were dressed in the nobbiest style of the art; And the others, unmindful of fashion's decrees, Were attired to have much more comfort and ease.
From How She Felt in Her First Corset and Other Poems by Matt. W. Alderson
Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was Barbara Frietchie.'
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain
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