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
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
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
And besides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle.
From Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion by Twain, Mark
Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Twain, Mark
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
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
Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was "Barbara Frietchie."
From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark
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