nobbut
Britishadverb
Etymology
Origin of nobbut
C14: from no ² + but 1
Example Sentences
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Anne Hathaway minded nobbut Emmerdale to star in One Day.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2011
“We’re nobbut owd folk at t’ best, an’ t’ lad was leavin’ oor roof for school in a little while.
From The Revellers by Louis Tracy
"Why, Lord, thou'rt wet and cold; an' I'll be bound thou's had nobbut hay for thy bed."
From At Large by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
There’s oud Mally Brook hez been dahn to look, And shoo’s sore disappointed they say; Shoo’s omust goan crackt for shoo sez it weant act, For they nobbut can run it wun way.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
Or, to change the simile—as a native of Cartmelfell once aptly phrased it: "Big an' beàny as he was, he was nobbut like a splinter blown off a man!"
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin
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