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Nobby vs Gobby - What's the difference?

nobby | gobby |

As adjectives the difference between nobby and gobby

is that nobby is wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing) while gobby is marked by the presence of gobs lumps.

As a proper noun Nobby

is a diminutive=Norbert given name.

As a noun gobby is

an act of fellatio.

nobby

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (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 , 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.
  • * 1873 , , 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."
  • (US) Fashionable or chic.
  • * 1883 , , 2007, page 152,
    • Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest .
  • * 1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in , page 25,
    • Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.
  • * 1933 , , page 37,
    • Alcibiades, was the nobbiest boy in Greece.

    Synonyms

    * (fashionable or chic) classy

    Derived terms

    * nobbily

    gobby

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (informal) Marked by the presence of gobs (lumps).
  • * 1898 , Gleanings in bee culture, Volume 26?
    • But if, however, the bees make from it a "gobby" article of comb honey, no one will be quicker to drop it than the Root Co.
  • * 1942 , Frank Roy Fraprie, American photography
    • ...to have a gobby mess of unrelated and meaningless color hung in a metropolitan show...
  • * 1952 , David Harry Walker, The pillar
    • He poured the Argentine stew in a gobby mess on top of the Spam.

    Etymology 2

    . The meaning "inclined to talk" is probably related to (m).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (British, slang, said of a person) Inclined to talk in a loud and offensive manner.

    • Noun

    (gobbies)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An act of fellatio.
  • * 2004 , John Charalambous, Furies , , ISBN 0702234559, page 164 [http://google.com/books?id=-sUhyF_kJ9AC&pg=PA164&dq=gobby]:
    • In year eight, crouched in a playground cubby, she gave Ryan Glover a gobby . Brief, busy, urgent. Then afterwards, slipping it back into his pants, he said thank you.
  • * 2007 , Joe Lewis, The Insurmountable Malaise of Man , (self-published), ISBN 9781847992444, page 278 [http://google.com/books?id=myJ8WLBqDOcC&pg=PA278&dq=gobby]:
    • He bustles me into a cubicle and locks the door.
  • *:"I'm not really in the mood for a gobby ," I slur, and laugh girlishly at my joke as I unzip my fly, "but if you insist..."
  • * 2007 July 17, Gordon Lightfoot III <GordonLightfootIII@gmail.com>, "A Question for Darkfalz (colgate total)", message-ID <1184667039.997405.66870@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, aus.tv , Usenet [http://groups.google.com/group/aus.tv/msg/4b6941df25de4a28]:
    • Have you seen the Colgate Total ad with the female Indian dentist? Would you let her give you a gobby ? I would. She has a perdy mouth.
    Synonyms
    * (fellatio) (l)

    References

    * Dictionary.com: "adj, -bier, -biest, informal, loudmouthed and offensive" * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2 edition, ISBN 0304366366: "adj., late 19C+, talkative"

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "gobby")

    References

    * A Glossary of Words used in the County of Chester (1886), by Robert Holland, page 9: "April gawby (W. Ches.), April gobby (Mid-Ches.), April gob (Macclesfield), s. an April fool" * The English Dialect Dictionary, vol. 1, A-C (1898), edited by Joseph Wright, published by Henry Frowde, Amen Corner, etc, page 66, keyword "April": "APRIL [...] ·gobby, ·gowk, ·noddy, various names for an April fool" * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2 edition, ISBN 0304366366: "n., late 19C-1920s, 1. a sailor, 2 a coastguardsman" * Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, 2 edition, ISBN 0304366366: "n., 1920s, US, a socially unacceptable person"