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Definition of Nobbler
1. n. A dram of spirits.
Definition of Nobbler
1. Noun. (Australia obsolete) A serving of beer or spirits. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nobbler
1. one that nobbles [n -S] - See also: nobbles
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobbler
Literary usage of Nobbler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1872)
"Mr. nobbler, on going to the street door, saw a man impatiently pacing up and down
... that * " Oats is to be roped by the nobbler—that you have all been 'C ..."
2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"On the banks of the winding but now stream* less creeks, . . . there was generally
a solitary inn or squatter's hut, where the universal nobbler of brandy ..."
3. The Story of the Australian Bushrangers by George Boxall (1902)
"Well, I'm Dan Morgan, I just wanted to know, and you'd better give them a nobbler,"
replied the bushranger. Mr. Watson said he'd no objection to the men ..."
4. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1869)
"At almost every bar they come to, they go in and have a " nobbler "—that is, a
glass of spirits and water. When you are walking along with a colonial fellow ..."
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