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nobbut

adverb
  1. dialect nothing but; only
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Word Origin

C14: from no ² + but 1
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Examples from the Web for nobbut

Historical Examples

  • Deary me, but ye've gat all sorts of sons though you've nobbut two.

    The Shadow of a Crime

    Hall Caine

  • And as for the touch of damp, 'tis nobbut the pride o' the mornin'.

    Shining Ferry

    Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

  • Locker said I was a "good un," and I might "win £100 if I'd nobbut stick tu him."

  • If we'd nobbut his bit of a dog, who'd find him, sure enough.

    Wenderholme

    Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  • Varry few things'll suit me, for we're nobbut gooin for a day or two.

    Seets I' Paris

    John Hartley