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▪ I. nobby, n.|ˈnɒbɪ|
[Of doubtful origin.]
1. = nobbler3.
1887All Year Round 22 Jan. 10 The fisherman's stick or nobby, used in the salmon fishing.
2. A Manx fishing boat of the smallest class. Also used more widely around the Irish Sea, and by the Royal Navy.
1899S. Gwynn in Blackw. Mag. Oct. 489 The crews of forty-eight row-boats..and of eighteen nobbies and hookers. Ibid. 490 The nobby, a Manx type, has been largely introduced—a boat..provided with two short masts which can easily be a let down without being unstepped. 1936E. Vale Seas & Shores England ii. 19 The Morecambe Bay fishermen with their specially evolved cutter⁓rigged smack called a nobby have been for generations famous throughout the three western seas of Britain. 1948R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. 491/1 Nobbie, nobby. 1. A round-sterned, two-masted, lug⁓rigged fishing boat found on the south coast of Ireland... 2. A pointed-stern fishing boat of the Mersey estuary rigged with a jib, a dipping lug foresail, and a standing lug mizzen. 1953J. Masefield Conway (rev. ed.) iv. 209 We had three sailing dinghies—and the nobby—a heavier boat of about eighteen feet. 1970E. J. March Inshore Craft Gt. Britain II. viii. 280 The early smacks, ‘nobbies’ to use the local name, were about 36 ft long, and drew 4 ft of water. 1973W. Elmer Terminol. Fishing i. 26 In the west, an impressive pattern is formed by the distribution of the prawners and shrimpers of the Cumberland and Lancashire coast, and the Lancashire nobby.
3. Austral. Black opal found as a silica drop (the characteristic form at Lightning Ridge, N.S.W.).
1924T. C. Wollaston Opal i. ii. 10 Characteristic forms of the Black Opal are locally known as ‘Nobbies’{ddd}pseudomorphs after sponges and corals. 1948E. F. Murphy They struck Opal 140 Nobbies are..scattered here and there like shells on the beach. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 79 These petrified..bubbles are called ‘nobbies’; and they are prised out..by the opal digger. 1967S. Lloyd Lightning Ridge Bk. Introd., Dug out a cleanskin nobby. It was a bonza stone and a whopper too.
▪ II. nobby, a. slang.|ˈnɒbɪ|
Also 8 Sc. knabby.
[f. nob n.3 + -y1.]
Belonging to, or characteristic of, the ‘nobs’; extremely smart or elegant. a. Of persons.
1788Picken Poems 178 The herds o' mony a knabbie laird War trainin' for the shambles. c1810Broadside Ballad (Farmer), A werry nobby dog's meat man. 1847Alb. Smith Nat. Hist. Gent x. 67 He would think that he was not ‘nobby’ if he did not have some wretched champagne. 1884Harper's Mag. Jan. 230/2 How ‘nobby’ the Captain used to look..in the..silk suits.
b. Of places or things.
1844C. Selby Lond. by Night ii. i, Enter Ankle Jack, extravagantly dressed. I fancy I shall do, my togs being in keeping with this nobby place. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. liv, Respecting this unfortunate family matter, and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet. 1862Punch 29 Mar. 124/1 But..‘the game's alive again’, in the nobby new Westminster Pit. 1893‘Q.’ (Quiller Couch) Delect. Duchy 212 An outfit..described as ‘rather nobby’.
c. the nobby, the smart thing.
1869E. Farmer Scrap Book (ed. 6) 75 He went for the nobby, he heeded not price. 1905Daily Chron. 18 Dec. 4/5 We pay sixpence..in the body of the hall, and ninepence if we do the nobby and ascend to the balcony.
▪ III. nobby
variant of knobby a. |