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nobby | noddy |

As a proper noun nobby

is .

As a noun noddy is

a stupid or silly person or noddy can be any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera anous'' and ''procelsterna , found in tropical seas or noddy can be (television) a cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.

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

    noddy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably a shortening of noddypoll, a now obsolete alteration of hoddypoll, "fumbling inept person".

    Noun

    (noddies)
  • A stupid or silly person.
  • * Burton
    • He made soft fellows stark noddies , and such as were foolish quite mad.
    (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    Etymology 2

    ?

    Noun

    (noddies)
  • Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous'' and ''Procelsterna , found in tropical seas.
  • (dated) A small two-wheeled vehicle drawn by a single horse.
  • An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.
  • (obsolete, uncountable) An old card game.
    • (Halliwell)
    Derived terms
    * brown noddy, Anous stolidus * sooty noddy, Anous tenuirostris * black noddy, Anous minutus * blue noddy, Procelsterna cerulea * grey noddy, Procelsterna albivitta

    Etymology 3

    , coined by John Fiske in 1987.

    Noun

    (noddies)
  • (television) A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview.
    • Noddies are often filmed after the interview in question has finished.

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