Nobby vs Zenobia - What's the difference?

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Nobby is a related term of zenobia.

As proper nouns the difference between nobby and zenobia

is that nobby is while zenobia is .

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

zenobia

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

* 1880 , Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion

"I shall always think," said Zenobia , "that Lord Liverpool went much too far, though I never said so in his time; for I always uphold my friends."

* 1946 , Joy in the Morning , Overlook Press (2002), ISBN 1585672769, page 12:

This Zenobia ("Nobby") Hopwood was old Worplesdon's ward, as I believe it is called. A pal of his, just before he stopped ticking over some years previously, had left him in charge of his daughter.