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单词 nobble
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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).
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