Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Fashionable; stylish.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having an aristocratic appearance; showy; elegant; fashionable; smart.
  • Good; capital.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Slang Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.

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  • adjective Fashionable or chic.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From nob.]

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Examples

  • "So am I, for it strikes me that is an uncommonly 'nobby' little affair," he said approvingly.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl 1950

  • The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel businessmen in "nobby" suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups.

    Sister Carrie: a Novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel business men in "nobby" suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • The casual wanderer could see as he passed a polished array of office fixtures, much frosted glass, clerks hard at work, and genteel businessmen in "nobby" suits and clean linen lounging about or sitting in groups.

    Sister Carrie 1900

  • "So am I, for it strikes me that is an uncommonly 'nobby' little affair," he said approvingly.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1870

  • "So am I, for it strikes me that is an uncommonly 'nobby' little affair," he said approvingly.

    An Old-Fashioned Girl Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • "Well, it's what aw call a nobby un; but awd better net waste ony time, soa aw'll goa an 'see if Susy' ll leean me yond coit.

    Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

  • Barnes, your nobby nonsense is my deliberate stirring.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Not so lazy Sunday 2010

  • The nobby texture of the Trinity Stitch makes a good cloth for scrubbing.

    Archive 2008-09-01 regina doman 2008

  • The nobby texture of the Trinity Stitch makes a good cloth for scrubbing.

    Humble Homage to Mother Teresa regina doman 2008

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  • Could a name for “enforcer of law” be

    More cozy than plain British “bobby?”

    See “peeler” that was

    Supplanted because

    The cockneys considered it nobby.

    January 15, 2019