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- adjective
superlative form ofnobby : mostnobby .
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Examples
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Williams is "nobbiest" of third-story boys, bravest of Camanche warriors, but Williams doesn't dare refuse to go for that basket.
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And he, the modern man, caught in the snare, buys the shiniest stovepipe hat and nobbiest cane, dons his gaudiest neck-tie and widest trousers -- and after all, beasts and birds and fishes, savage and civilized, we are all alike and ruled by the same instinct and passion, and "why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"
Fair to Look Upon Mary Belle Freeley
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In just a word, 'said I (I had his attention completely),' I am selling the prettiest, nobbiest, most up-to-date line of furnishing goods there is on the road.
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Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was "Barbara Frietchie."'
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Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was "Barbara Frietchie."'
Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910
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Wanted to know what was the use of being a nob if a fellow wasn't the nobbiest sort of a nob.
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Fifty styles of the Smartest and nobbiest wheel specialties for ponies and Small horses, Pony carts, light horse novelties, traps, wagons, Harness, Saddles, etc.
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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."
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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Emerson says, 'The nobbiest thing I ever wrote was Barbara
Chapters from My Autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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And besides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle.
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion Mark Twain 1872
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