nobblev.

Brit.

/ˈnɒbl/, U.S.

/ˈnɑb(ə)l/

Forms: 1800s– knobble, 1800s– nobble; English regional 1700s noble, 1800s– nabble.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: nob v.¹, -le suffix; nubble v..

Etymology: Either (i) < nob v.¹ + -le suffix, or (ii) a variant of nubble v. Compare knob v., earlier knubble v., and later knobble v. Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. nobble sb. and v.¹ connects this word with the use of nobble to denote ‘the round head of a walking stick’ (compare knobble n.), although the only example of the noun use given there postdates evidence for the verb.

colloquial.

1. transitive. To strike, hit, beat up; to stun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object

drepeOE

smitec1200

buffet?c1225

strike1377

rapa1400

seta1400

frontc1400

ballc1450

throw1488

to bear (a person) a blow1530

fetch1556

douse1559

knetcha1564

slat1577

to hit any one a blow1597

wherret1599

alapate1609

shock1614

baske1642

measure1652

plump1785

jow1802

nobble1841

scuff1841

clump1864

bust1873

plonk1874

to sock it to1877

dot1881

biff1888

dong1889

slosh1890

to soak it to1892

to cop (a person) one1898

poke1906

to hang one on1908

bop1931

clonk1949

1744 [implied in: 1744 in Churchwardens' Accts. Kinver (Staffs. Rec. Office: D1197/4/1) Paid..the Nobler 5 Quarters Salary To Midr. 1744 00:12:06. (at nobbler n. 1)].

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 517 Nobler, a man whose duty it is to remind inattentive youths in church, of their misbehaviour, by ‘nobling’ them, or hitting them on the head with a wand.

1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle North-west Passage by Land xv. 306 His son had succeeded in ‘nobbling’ a brace of partridges, knocking the young birds out of the trees with short sticks, missiles they used with great dexterity.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 88/1 Ah've nobbled rattens wi' ma puli mair na yance.

1971 R. Allen Suedehead x. 83 He'd play the ‘game’ and nobble the bastard once they reached where the queer lived.

1982 ‘J. Gash’ Spend Game xvi. 124 ‘They've got two blokes to nobble you.’.. Real aggro men who'll marmalize anybody for a few quid.

a. transitive. To tamper with (a horse or greyhound) to prevent it from winning a race, e.g. by giving it a drug or laming it. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > tamper with horse

to get at ——1812

nobble1847

1847 [implied in: Illustr. London News 6 Nov. 302/1 What is the play at a German watering-place compared with the..‘nobbling’ and ‘hocussing’ of a race course. (at nobbling n.)].

1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn iv A shadowy vision of creditors ‘done’, horses ‘nobbled’.

1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May (Farmer) Buccaneer..was nobbled, i.e. maimed purposely, before the Two Thousand in which he was engaged.

1881 Standard 22 June 3/4 The libel accused the Plaintiff of being a party to ‘nobbling’ a horse..with the object of raising the odds against it.

1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather iii. 34 At any moment..the bounder was liable to come sneaking in, mask on face and poison-needle in hand, intent on nobbling the favourite.

1951 R. Graves Occupation: Writer (1974) 183 I'm not allowed to accept sweets from racing-men. Mother said so particularly. Bill..you tell him how to nobble—I've forgotten.

1989 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 1/5 The intention was to nobble horses that were either favourite or second favourite to win races.

b. transitive. In extended use: to harm, injure; to create problems for, to handicap.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to

werdec725

wema1000

evilc1000

harmc1000

hinderc1000

teenOE

scathec1175

illc1220

to wait (one) scathec1275

to have (…) wrong1303

annoya1325

grievec1330

wrong1390

to do violence to (also unto)a1393

mischievea1393

damagea1400

annulc1425

trespass1427

mischief1437

poisonc1450

injurea1492

damnify1512

prejudge1531

misfease1571

indemnify1583

bane1601

debauch1633

lese1678

empoison1780

misguggle1814

nobble1860

strafe1915

to dick up1951

1860 C. W. Wilson Jrnl. 1 Aug. in Mapping Frontier (1970) 113 I will try & give you a little news in spite of my arm which has been lately nobbled by a tarantula & is a good deal swelled still.

1939 H. Nicolson Diary 20 Sept. (1967) 36 Margesson insisted that..he [sc. Churchill] must be ‘nobbled’ by having a department which would occupy all his time.

1960 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. xvii. 142 He was left bereft when this particular style of ‘nobbling’ the opposition was outwitted in the first Test.

1988 T. Lovett Radical Approaches to Adult Educ. (BNC) 194 In most sports, some competitors are nobbled from the start. They can never win, and when it looks like they might, someone moves the goal post.

1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 286 He..was even pretty sorry to hear about her father's pretty serious heart attack, which had nobbled him that same Sunday night.

†a. transitive. To swindle, cheat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something

beguile1394

wrongc1484

delude1493

licka1500

to wipe a person's nose1577

uncle1585

cheat1597

cozen1602

to bob of1605

to bob out of1605

gull1612

foola1616

to set in the nick1616

to worm (a person) out of1617

shuffle1627

to baffle out of1652

chouse1654

trepan1662

bubble1668

trick1698

to bamboozle out of1705

fling1749

jockey1772

swindle1780

twiddle1825

to diddle out of1829

nig1829

to chisel out of1848

to beat out1851

nobble1852

duff1863

flim-flam1890

1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 2 Oct. 53/1 Attract the sympathies of the benevolent, and loosen their purse strings; or, as he phrased it ‘nobble the flats’.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxv. 244 I don't know out of how much the reverend party has nobbled his poor old sister.

1890 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang, Jargon & Cant II. 89/1 Don't you fancy the hunemployed bunkum has nobbled me: not such a mug!

b. transitive. To steal; to obtain by dishonest methods.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]

pick?c1300

takec1300

fetch1377

bribec1405

usurpc1412

rapc1415

to rap and rendc1415

embezzle1495

lifta1529

pilfer1532

suffurate1542

convey?1545

mill1567

prig1567

strike1567

lag1573

shave1585

knave1601

twitch1607

cly1610

asport1621

pinch1632

snapa1639

nap1665

panyar1681

to carry off1684

to pick up1687

thievea1695

to gipsy away1696

bone1699

make1699

win1699

magg1762

snatch1766

to make off with1768

snavel1795

feck1809

shake1811

nail1819

geach1821

pull1821

to run off1821

smug1825

nick1826

abduct1831

swag1846

nobble1855

reef1859

snig1862

find1865

to pull off1865

cop1879

jump1879

slock1888

swipe1889

snag1895

rip1904

snitch1904

pole1906

glom1907

boost1912

hot-stuff1914

score1914

clifty1918

to knock off1919

snoop1924

heist1930

hoist1931

rabbit1943

to rip off1967

to have off1974

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xix. 191 After nobbling her money for the beauty of the family.

1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 207 A gentleman in your position might as well nobble the Griffin outside as steal them stones.

1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 158 Doan't leave thi beg (bag) theer, it'll get nobbled.

1995 Nation 30 Oct. 500 Keyes became a protégé of Allan Bloom as a Cornell undergraduate before following Bloom to Harvard, where he nobbled a Ph.D.

4. transitive. To secure the support of by unfair or underhand methods; to influence the opinion or actions of in advance of a formal decision. Also: to accost, esp. with the aim of persuasion.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe

meedOE

underorna1325

corrump1387

forbuy1393

hirec1400

wage1461

fee1487

under-arearc1503

bribe1528

grease1528

money1528

corrupt1548

budc1565

to feed with money1567

to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580

sweeten1594

to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598

over-bribe1619

to buy off1629

palter1641

to take off1646

buy1652

overmoneya1661

bub1684

to speak to ——1687

to tickle in the palm1694

daub1699

overbuy1710

touch1752

palm1767

to get at ——1780

fix1790

subsidize1793

sop1837

to buy over1848

backsheesh1850

nobble1856

square1859

hippodrome1866

see1867

boodleize1883

boodle1886

to get to ——1901

reach1906

straighten1923

lubricate1928

to keep (someone) sweet1939

sling1939

to pay off1942

bung1950

1856 Ld. Clarendon Let. in H. R. C. Wellesley Paris Embassy (1928) 103 Morny..seems to have talked with enthusiasm about the Empress-mother, and to have been quite nobbled by her.

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Aug. 11/2 Brickwood was umpire, in a London watermen's eight, and played his part well, despite various attempts at what is called nobbling.

1884 Manch. Examiner 15 Oct. 5/5 He must be a very clumsy operator who, when he wishes to nobble a newspaper, does it by cash down.

1889 Times 2 May 9/5 A cool attempt to nobble the Council on the question of the licensing of music-halls.

1912 F. M. Hueffer Panel i. ii. 31 ‘Oh, I see,’ the major said amiably, ‘you want to nobble her before she makes any business arrangements with my uncle.’

1981 Daily Tel. 29 Sept. 6/5 An increase in attempts to ‘nobble’ juries is worrying police and lawyers at the Old Bailey.

1998 A. Geras Silent Snow, Secret Snow 113 The Maestro nobbled Carlo just as he was on his way to the kitchen with Marianne.

5. transitive. To get hold of, seize, catch. Also: to kidnap.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)]

gripea900

afangOE

to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE

repeOE

atfonga1000

keepc1000

fang1016

kip1297

seize1338

to seize on or upon1399

to grip toc1400

rapc1415

to rap and rendc1415

comprise1423

forsetc1430

grip1488

to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495

compass1509

to catch hold1520

hap1528

to lay hold (up)on, of1535

seisin?c1550

cly1567

scratch1582

attach1590

asseizea1593

grasp1642

to grasp at1677

collar1728

smuss1736

get1763

pin1768

grabble1796

bag1818

puckerow1843

nobble1877

jump1882

snaffle1902

snag1962

pull1967

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > kidnap or abduct [verb (transitive)]

reavec1175

ravishc1330

stealc1386

proloyne1439

rapec1450

abduce1537

rapt1571

spirit1657

kidnap1682

abduct1772

nobble1877

shanghai1919

snatch1932

1877 J. Greenwood Dick Temple I. ii. 73 There's a fiver in the puss, and nine good quid... Nobble him, lads, and share it betwixt you.

1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xi. 132 We're bound to be nobbled some day.

1932 H. J. Massingham Wold without End 296 Off he goes to ‘bibble’ a mug of scrumpy and ‘nobble’ a hunk of cheese.

1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby viii. 64 We've got this Shackleton we've nobbled off Coastal Command.

1988 Big Fish May–June 43/2 Although we caught loads of bream and tench, no one ever nobbled a roach.

1991 D. Whitfield State of Prisons (BNC) 171 Sometimes a resident..was thought by one of his fellow citizens to be particularly obnoxious or dangerous... A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart, nobble him and throw him on the train.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nobble
释义	nobblev. Brit. /ˈnɒbl/, U.S. /ˈnɑb(ə)l/ Forms: 1800s– knobble, 1800s– nobble; English regional 1700s noble, 1800s– nabble. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Either (i) formed within English, by derivation. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: nob v.¹, -le suffix; nubble v.. Etymology: Either (i) < nob v.¹ + -le suffix, or (ii) a variant of nubble v. Compare knob v., earlier knubble v., and later knobble v. Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. nobble sb. and v.¹ connects this word with the use of nobble to denote ‘the round head of a walking stick’ (compare knobble n.), although the only example of the noun use given there postdates evidence for the verb. colloquial. 1. transitive. To strike, hit, beat up; to stun. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object drepeOE smitec1200 buffet?c1225 strike1377 rapa1400 seta1400 frontc1400 ballc1450 throw1488 to bear (a person) a blow1530 fetch1556 douse1559 knetcha1564 slat1577 to hit any one a blow1597 wherret1599 alapate1609 shock1614 baske1642 measure1652 plump1785 jow1802 nobble1841 scuff1841 clump1864 bust1873 plonk1874 to sock it to1877 dot1881 biff1888 dong1889 slosh1890 to soak it to1892 to cop (a person) one1898 poke1906 to hang one on1908 bop1931 clonk1949 1744 [implied in: 1744 in Churchwardens' Accts. Kinver (Staffs. Rec. Office: D1197/4/1) Paid..the Nobler 5 Quarters Salary To Midr. 1744 00:12:06. (at nobbler n. 1)]. 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 517 Nobler, a man whose duty it is to remind inattentive youths in church, of their misbehaviour, by ‘nobling’ them, or hitting them on the head with a wand. 1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle North-west Passage by Land xv. 306 His son had succeeded in ‘nobbling’ a brace of partridges, knocking the young birds out of the trees with short sticks, missiles they used with great dexterity. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 88/1 Ah've nobbled rattens wi' ma puli mair na yance. 1971 R. Allen Suedehead x. 83 He'd play the ‘game’ and nobble the bastard once they reached where the queer lived. 1982 ‘J. Gash’ Spend Game xvi. 124 ‘They've got two blokes to nobble you.’.. Real aggro men who'll marmalize anybody for a few quid. 2. a. transitive. To tamper with (a horse or greyhound) to prevent it from winning a race, e.g. by giving it a drug or laming it. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > tamper with horse to get at ——1812 nobble1847 1847 [implied in: Illustr. London News 6 Nov. 302/1 What is the play at a German watering-place compared with the..‘nobbling’ and ‘hocussing’ of a race course. (at nobbling n.)]. 1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn iv A shadowy vision of creditors ‘done’, horses ‘nobbled’. 1868 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May (Farmer) Buccaneer..was nobbled, i.e. maimed purposely, before the Two Thousand in which he was engaged. 1881 Standard 22 June 3/4 The libel accused the Plaintiff of being a party to ‘nobbling’ a horse..with the object of raising the odds against it. 1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather iii. 34 At any moment..the bounder was liable to come sneaking in, mask on face and poison-needle in hand, intent on nobbling the favourite. 1951 R. Graves Occupation: Writer (1974) 183 I'm not allowed to accept sweets from racing-men. Mother said so particularly. Bill..you tell him how to nobble—I've forgotten. 1989 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 1/5 The intention was to nobble horses that were either favourite or second favourite to win races. b. transitive. In extended use: to harm, injure; to create problems for, to handicap. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to werdec725 wema1000 evilc1000 harmc1000 hinderc1000 teenOE scathec1175 illc1220 to wait (one) scathec1275 to have (…) wrong1303 annoya1325 grievec1330 wrong1390 to do violence to (also unto)a1393 mischievea1393 damagea1400 annulc1425 trespass1427 mischief1437 poisonc1450 injurea1492 damnify1512 prejudge1531 misfease1571 indemnify1583 bane1601 debauch1633 lese1678 empoison1780 misguggle1814 nobble1860 strafe1915 to dick up1951 1860 C. W. Wilson Jrnl. 1 Aug. in Mapping Frontier (1970) 113 I will try & give you a little news in spite of my arm which has been lately nobbled by a tarantula & is a good deal swelled still. 1939 H. Nicolson Diary 20 Sept. (1967) 36 Margesson insisted that..he [sc. Churchill] must be ‘nobbled’ by having a department which would occupy all his time. 1960 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. xvii. 142 He was left bereft when this particular style of ‘nobbling’ the opposition was outwitted in the first Test. 1988 T. Lovett Radical Approaches to Adult Educ. (BNC) 194 In most sports, some competitors are nobbled from the start. They can never win, and when it looks like they might, someone moves the goal post. 1995 M. Amis Information (1996) 286 He..was even pretty sorry to hear about her father's pretty serious heart attack, which had nobbled him that same Sunday night. 3. †a. transitive. To swindle, cheat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 1852 G. A. Sala in Househ. Words 2 Oct. 53/1 Attract the sympathies of the benevolent, and loosen their purse strings; or, as he phrased it ‘nobble the flats’. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xxv. 244 I don't know out of how much the reverend party has nobbled his poor old sister. 1890 in A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang, Jargon & Cant II. 89/1 Don't you fancy the hunemployed bunkum has nobbled me: not such a mug! b. transitive. To steal; to obtain by dishonest methods. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] pick?c1300 takec1300 fetch1377 bribec1405 usurpc1412 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 embezzle1495 lifta1529 pilfer1532 suffurate1542 convey?1545 mill1567 prig1567 strike1567 lag1573 shave1585 knave1601 twitch1607 cly1610 asport1621 pinch1632 snapa1639 nap1665 panyar1681 to carry off1684 to pick up1687 thievea1695 to gipsy away1696 bone1699 make1699 win1699 magg1762 snatch1766 to make off with1768 snavel1795 feck1809 shake1811 nail1819 geach1821 pull1821 to run off1821 smug1825 nick1826 abduct1831 swag1846 nobble1855 reef1859 snig1862 find1865 to pull off1865 cop1879 jump1879 slock1888 swipe1889 snag1895 rip1904 snitch1904 pole1906 glom1907 boost1912 hot-stuff1914 score1914 clifty1918 to knock off1919 snoop1924 heist1930 hoist1931 rabbit1943 to rip off1967 to have off1974 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xix. 191 After nobbling her money for the beauty of the family. 1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 207 A gentleman in your position might as well nobble the Griffin outside as steal them stones. 1924 J. H. Wilkinson Leeds Dial. Gloss. & Lore 158 Doan't leave thi beg (bag) theer, it'll get nobbled. 1995 Nation 30 Oct. 500 Keyes became a protégé of Allan Bloom as a Cornell undergraduate before following Bloom to Harvard, where he nobbled a Ph.D. 4. transitive. To secure the support of by unfair or underhand methods; to influence the opinion or actions of in advance of a formal decision. Also: to accost, esp. with the aim of persuasion. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe meedOE underorna1325 corrump1387 forbuy1393 hirec1400 wage1461 fee1487 under-arearc1503 bribe1528 grease1528 money1528 corrupt1548 budc1565 to feed with money1567 to put out a person's eyes with (a gift, bribe, etc.)1580 sweeten1594 to grease the fist or (one) in the fist1598 over-bribe1619 to buy off1629 palter1641 to take off1646 buy1652 overmoneya1661 bub1684 to speak to ——1687 to tickle in the palm1694 daub1699 overbuy1710 touch1752 palm1767 to get at ——1780 fix1790 subsidize1793 sop1837 to buy over1848 backsheesh1850 nobble1856 square1859 hippodrome1866 see1867 boodleize1883 boodle1886 to get to ——1901 reach1906 straighten1923 lubricate1928 to keep (someone) sweet1939 sling1939 to pay off1942 bung1950 1856 Ld. Clarendon Let. in H. R. C. Wellesley Paris Embassy (1928) 103 Morny..seems to have talked with enthusiasm about the Empress-mother, and to have been quite nobbled by her. 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Aug. 11/2 Brickwood was umpire, in a London watermen's eight, and played his part well, despite various attempts at what is called nobbling. 1884 Manch. Examiner 15 Oct. 5/5 He must be a very clumsy operator who, when he wishes to nobble a newspaper, does it by cash down. 1889 Times 2 May 9/5 A cool attempt to nobble the Council on the question of the licensing of music-halls. 1912 F. M. Hueffer Panel i. ii. 31 ‘Oh, I see,’ the major said amiably, ‘you want to nobble her before she makes any business arrangements with my uncle.’ 1981 Daily Tel. 29 Sept. 6/5 An increase in attempts to ‘nobble’ juries is worrying police and lawyers at the Old Bailey. 1998 A. Geras Silent Snow, Secret Snow 113 The Maestro nobbled Carlo just as he was on his way to the kitchen with Marianne. 5. transitive. To get hold of, seize, catch. Also: to kidnap. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > seizing > seize [verb (transitive)] gripea900 afangOE to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE repeOE atfonga1000 keepc1000 fang1016 kip1297 seize1338 to seize on or upon1399 to grip toc1400 rapc1415 to rap and rendc1415 comprise1423 forsetc1430 grip1488 to put (one's) hand(s) on (also in, to, unto, upon)1495 compass1509 to catch hold1520 hap1528 to lay hold (up)on, of1535 seisin?c1550 cly1567 scratch1582 attach1590 asseizea1593 grasp1642 to grasp at1677 collar1728 smuss1736 get1763 pin1768 grabble1796 bag1818 puckerow1843 nobble1877 jump1882 snaffle1902 snag1962 pull1967 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > kidnap or abduct [verb (transitive)] reavec1175 ravishc1330 stealc1386 proloyne1439 rapec1450 abduce1537 rapt1571 spirit1657 kidnap1682 abduct1772 nobble1877 shanghai1919 snatch1932 1877 J. Greenwood Dick Temple I. ii. 73 There's a fiver in the puss, and nine good quid... Nobble him, lads, and share it betwixt you. 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xi. 132 We're bound to be nobbled some day. 1932 H. J. Massingham Wold without End 296 Off he goes to ‘bibble’ a mug of scrumpy and ‘nobble’ a hunk of cheese. 1968 M. Woodhouse Rock Baby viii. 64 We've got this Shackleton we've nobbled off Coastal Command. 1988 Big Fish May–June 43/2 Although we caught loads of bream and tench, no one ever nobbled a roach. 1991 D. Whitfield State of Prisons (BNC) 171 Sometimes a resident..was thought by one of his fellow citizens to be particularly obnoxious or dangerous... A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart, nobble him and throw him on the train. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1744
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