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Definition of Nobbiest
1. nobby [adj] - See also: nobby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobbiest
Literary usage of Nobbiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest. "Why, just
look at it. A rich man won't have anything but your very best; ..."
2. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going. Now here comes the very trick.
Stop that yaller one with the pictures on it—don't you fret— I'll stand all the ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"I mean to have the nobbiest rig that's going. Now here comes the very trick.
Stop that yaller one with the pictures on it — don't you fret—I'll stand all ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1878)
"Young gentlemen, you will remain and clear up the hall. Williams, go to the
coal-cellar and bring up the two-bushel basket." Williams is " nobbiest" of ..."
5. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1872)
"Griswold has a fine furnishing department, and is " cutting himself into deserved
repute." Merwin's customers claim that he is the " nobbiest " tailor in ..."
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