nobby

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1. Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).

2. {{quote-book|en|year=c. 1852-1853|author=Charles Dickens|year_published=1876|editors=Levi C. Goodale; Charlie Lulledge|title=Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak House|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mgE-AQAAMAAJ&q=%22nobbiest%22&dq=%22nobbiest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Kw10VMLxIufGmAXV8ILwAg&redir_esc=y|page=106

3. {{quote-book|en|year=1873|author=Thomas Hardy|title=A Pair of Blue Eyes|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RyYSAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA291&dq=%22nobbiest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=O-xzVPH6NOGwmwWJjYCADA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22nobbiest%22&f=false|page=291

4. Fashionable or chic.

5. {{quote-text|en|year=1883|author=Mark Twain|title=Life on the Mississippi|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KzA4BNUuKrMC&pg=PA152&dq=%22nobbiest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=O-xzVPH6NOGwmwWJjYCADA&redir_esc=yv=onepage&q=%22nobbiest%22&f=false|page=152|year_published=2007

6. 1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in The New Yorker|''The New Yorker'', page 25,

Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1933|author=Josephine Herbst|title=Pity Is Not Enough|pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=NdFaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22nobbiest%22&dq=%22nobbiest%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Kw10VMLxIufGmAXV8ILwAg&redir_esc=y|page=37