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englanti puhekieltä wealthy Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
(circa) w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, 1876, Levi C. Goodale, Charlie Lulledge (editors), Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak House, 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,
I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavor to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter, and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet.
1873, w:Thomas Hardy|Thomas Hardy, w:A Pair of Blue Eyes|A Pair of Blue Eyes, 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,
"(..)What makes it worse,” she continued, in the extremity of confidence, “I heard those two cricketing men say just now, 'She's the nobbiest girl on the boat.' But I don't mind it, you know, Harry."
puhekieltä fashionable Fashionable or chic.
1883, w:Mark Twain|Mark Twain, w:Life on the Mississippi|Life on the Mississippi, 2007, 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,
Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.
1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in w:The New Yorker|The New Yorker, page 25,
Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.
1933, w:Josephine Herbst|Josephine Herbst, w:Pity Is Not Enough|Pity Is Not Enough, 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,
Alcibiades, was the nobbiest boy in Greece.

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