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nobby

nobby adjective: wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).

Adjective

nobby (comparative nobbier, superlative nobbiest)

  1. (UK, informal) Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
    • I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavor to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter, and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet.c. 1852-1853, Charles Dickens, edited by Levi C. Goodale and Charlie Lulledge, Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak House, published 1876, page 106
    • "[…]What makes it worse,” she continued, in the extremity of confidence, “I heard those two cricketing men say just now, 'She's the nobbiest girl on the boat.' But I don't mind it, you know, Harry."1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, page 291
  2. (US, informal) Fashionable or chic.
    • Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, published 2007, page 152
    • Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in The New Yorker, page 25
    Synonyms:
    classy

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Nobby

Nobby

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Norbert.
    • Nobby Stiles
    • Norbert is a moniker one normally doesn't associate with one of the game's most intimidating midfielders, but "Nobby" provided the steel for the England side that prevailed in the 1966 World Cup, and his gap-toothed visage would have earned him a guest spot in the movie Halloween.2009, Jeff Carlisle, Soccer's Most Wanted II, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 234
  2. A diminutive of the female given name Zenobia.
    • There's Nobby, now―here he indicates Zenobia with his pipe―"as has 'ad a whole cartload o' troubles, besides me a riding on the shafts, an' that's bad enough, an't it, Nobby?"1855, Watts Phillips, The Wild Tribes of London, page 49

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Nobby

Nobby

  1. Nickname for a person with the surname Clark or Clarke.

nobby meaning in Urdu

nobby in Urdu

اول درجے کا, خوش پوش, شائستہ, تیز طرار

Synonyms of nobby

Forms of nobby

comparativenobbier
superlativenobbiest

Origin of nobby

From nob + -y.

Various theories; see Wikipedia article.

Words formed from nobby

Words that rhyme with nobby

3 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about nobby

What does nobby mean?
Nobby means wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
What is nobby in Urdu?
Nobby in Urdu is اول درجے کا, خوش پوش, شائستہ. See Nobby meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is nobby?
Nobby can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near nobby in the dictionary

  1. nobbliest
  2. nobbling
  3. nobbly
  4. Nobbs
  5. nobbut
  6. nobby
  7. Nobbys Creek
  8. nobel
  9. Nobel Disease
  10. Nobel laureate
  11. Nobel laureates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nobby (page history and authors); Nobby (page history and authors); nobby (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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