Nobble vs Noble - What's the difference?
nobble | noble |
(British, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally; batter.
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*:His main fear is that the fledgling technology could have its wings clipped by traditional manufacturers, who will doubtless view it as a threat to their livelihoods, and do all in their powers to nobble it.
(British, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
*2000 , Italo Pardo, Morals of Legitimacy: Between Agency and System , page 122
*2002 , Kevin Jefferys, Labour Forces: From Ernie Bevin to Gordon Brown , page 107
*:For example jury trials were reformed to allow majority verdicts, so that criminals could less easily nobble them.
*2012 , Mark Hagger, William: King and Conqueror , page 75
*:Here, though, Picot's overbearing power, and the fact that the bishop was an absentee, meant that the sheriff could use threats to "nobble" the judges.
(British, slang) To steal.
An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 93:
Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
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, title= Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
As a verb nobble
is (british|australia|slang) to injure or obstruct intentionally; batter.As a proper noun noble is
.nobble
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Verb
(nobbl)Affordable-housing lobby out to nobble investments", The Australian , 22 October 2011:
- Their core belief, unsupported by evidence or logic, is that homes are unaffordable because investors drive up prices.
- Australians for Affordable Housing appears to think that nobbling investors will strike a telling blow for first-time buyers: remove negative gearing and increase capital gains tax, and homes will be affordable.
Google attacks Twitter's search bias claim", The Register , 11 January 2012:
- Google has come out fighting after Twitter claimed that changes to its search engine nobble results to favour Google+, damaging the internet.
3D printing: Difference Engine: The PC all over again?", The Economist , 9 September 2012:
- The jury was nobbled to delay unanimous verdict.
- Unlike "noble" vigilantes, the police and court facilities which exist are said to be inefficient and corrupt, and juries are said to be easily "nobbled " or intimidated.
Usage notes
The first meaning is employed mainly in sporting contexts, especially in horse racing. The second is used in judicial contexts, applied often to courts, juries and other judicial bodies.noble
English
(wikipedia noble)Noun
(en noun)- This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.
- I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
- And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
- There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
Antonyms
* commoner * plebeianHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* half-noble * noble gasAdjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
