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Definition of Nobbier
1. nobby [adj] - See also: nobby
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobbier
Literary usage of Nobbier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
""The summit gained, he pulls up at the Valley, To drain a farewell 'nobbier' to
his Sally." "To pay for liquor for another is to ' stand,' or to ' shout,' ..."
2. The Irish Quarterly Review (1857)
"The reader knows the system carried out in Ireland ; let us look at the system
adopted in the case, we will say, of The nobbier when his time of discharge ..."
3. Dogdom: Monthly (1920)
"Edward J. Templeton. Pana. Illinois. 21-10-2 FOR SALE—Airedale puppies. Sire.
Hav- enstone Joffre. son of Abbey King nobbier. Dam. ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1897)
"The word nobbier, it should be explained, is one of the Australian white man's
cant words for a drink. "When cruising about . . . with a crew of Kurnai . ..."
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