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nobbily

nobbily adverb: in a nobby manner.

Adverb

nobbily (comparative more nobbily, superlative most nobbily)

  1. In a nobby manner.
    • Tracey made a note of this, and is further on record as having observed that this stranger was rather better dressed than the run of drummers, if not so nobbily.2007, Louis Joseph Vance, The Fortune Hunter, page 31

Forms of nobbily

comparativemore nobbily
superlativemost nobbily

Origin of nobbily

From nobby + -ly.

Questions about nobbily

What does nobbily mean?
Nobbily means in a nobby manner.
What part of speech is nobbily?
Nobbily is an adverb.

Words near nobbily in the dictionary

  1. nobber
  2. nobbers
  3. Nobbes
  4. nobbier
  5. nobbiest
  6. nobbily
  7. nobbiness
  8. nobbing
  9. nobbings
  10. nobbish
  11. nobble

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