Nobbed vs Nabbed - What's the difference?

nobbed | nabbed |

As verbs the difference between nobbed and nabbed

is that nobbed is past tense of nob while nabbed is past tense of nab.

nobbed

English

Verb

(head)

(nob)

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

nabbed

English

Verb

(head)

(nab)

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

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