nobbinessn.
/ˈnɒbɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈnɑbinᵻs/ slang.
The state of being or resembling a person of wealth or distinction; smartness, affected elegance; snobbishness.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > smartness
sparkishness1687
smartness1741
slickness1872
nobbiness1909
1909 N.Y. Evening Post 7 Aug. 2 He unwittingly errs..on the side either of a certain scrubbiness or of an even more unfortunate ‘nobbiness’.
1935 Amer. Speech 10 10/1 Around 1900 when the present-day elderly good-people were criminal Dapper Dans, their lingo was the last word in linguistic nobbiness.
1997 Times (Nexis) 18 Aug. (Sport section) If showjumping's associations are with wealth, women and nobbiness, who cares?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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