Knobby vs Nobby - What's the difference?
knobby | nobby |
resembling a knob
(British) pleasantly small
(UK) Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
* , 1876, Levi C. Goodale, Charlie Lulledge (editors), Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak House ,
* 1873 , ,
(US) Fashionable or chic.
* 1883 , , 2007,
* 1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in , page 25,
* 1933 , ,
As adjectives the difference between knobby and nobby
is that knobby is resembling a knob while nobby is wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).As a proper noun Nobby is
a diminutive=Norbert given name.knobby
English
Adjective
(er)- Do you like my new mobile? Yes, isn't it knobby .
nobby
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Adjective
(er)page 106,
- 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.
page 291,
- "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."
page 152,
- Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest .
- Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.
page 37,
- Alcibiades, was the nobbiest boy in Greece.
