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nobbings

nobbings noun: money collected by soliciting the audience during a public performance.

Noun

nobbings pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, obsolete, plural, plural-only, slang) Money collected by soliciting the audience during a public performance.
    • He began with his part of the performance whilst I was dressing up the table. It was covered with black velvet with fringe, and the apparatus ranged on it. After him I began my performance, and he went round for the nobbings.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Questions about nobbings

What does nobbings mean?
Nobbings means money collected by soliciting the audience during a public performance.
What part of speech is nobbings?
Nobbings is a noun.

Words near nobbings in the dictionary

  1. nobbier
  2. nobbiest
  3. nobbily
  4. nobbiness
  5. nobbing
  6. nobbings
  7. nobbish
  8. nobble
  9. nobbled
  10. nobbler
  11. nobblerize

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