Meaning of nobby | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
   UK, informal
2. Fashionable or chic.
   US, informal

Examples

“I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavor to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter, and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet.”

“"[…]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.' But I don't mind it, you know, Harry."”

“Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.”

“1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in The New Yorker, page 25, Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.”

“Alcibiades, was the nobbiest boy in Greece.”

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