释义 |
ˈnobbily, adv. [f. nobby a. + -ly2.] In a nobby manner; showily; smartly (Ogilvie 1882).
1859Hotten Dict. Slang 69 Nobby, fine or showy; nobbily, showily. 1877‘Mark Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 591 Two hundred Bermudians..all of them nobbily dressed, as the poet says. 1880Punch 25 Dec. 299/1 There wasn't a chap in the room so good-looking or nobbily drest. |