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Nab vs Nob - What's the difference?

nab | nob |

As verbs the difference between nab and nob

is that nab is to seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive while nob is {{cx|informal|lang=en}} To hit in the head.

As nouns the difference between nab and nob

is that nab is the summit of an eminence while nob is a wealthy or influential person; a toff.

As an initialism NAB

is National Australia Bank.

As a proper noun Nob is

a place, north of Jerusalem, whose inhabitants were massacred by Saul.

nab

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(nabb)
  • To seize, arrest or take into custody a criminal or fugitive
  • To grab or snatch something
    • Synonyms
    * (To arrest a criminal or fugitive) nick, bust
    Derived terms
    * nabber * kidnap

    Etymology 2

    Compare knap, knop, knob.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The summit of an eminence.
    • (Halliwell)
  • The cock of a gunlock.
    • (Knight)
  • (locksmithing) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
    • (Knight)

    Anagrams

    * * Appalachian English English transitive verbs ----

    nob

    English

    Etymology 1

    * From "nobleman" or "member of the nobility" (Doubtful) * From "white-nob" (Eighteenth century) or "white-head", referring to the powdered wigs used by those affecting upper middle-class status.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, chiefly, British) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
    • The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.
  • :: Baldrick, Blackadder Goes Forth

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The head.
    • Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.
  • (cribbage) a jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer.
    • One for his nob .
  • (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis.

    • Verb

  • To hit in the head

    • Anagrams

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