English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
nobble — [[t]nɒ̱b(ə)l[/t]] nobbles, nobbling, nobbled 1) VERB If someone nobbles an important group of people such as a committee, they offer them money or threaten them in order to make them do something. [BRIT, INFORMAL] [V n] The trial was stopped… … English dictionary
Yan Tan Tethera — was a traditional numeric jargon used by shepherds to count sheep in northern England and southern Scotland. Until the Industrial Revolution, the use of specialised traditional number systems was common among shepherds, especially in the dales of … Wikipedia
nobble — UK [ˈnɒb(ə)l] / US [ˈnɑb(ə)l] verb [transitive] Word forms nobble : present tense I/you/we/they nobble he/she/it nobbles present participle nobbling past tense nobbled past participle nobbled British very informal 1) to try and get someone s… … English dictionary
nobbler — /ˈnɒblə/ (say nobluh) noun 1. someone or something that nobbles. 2. any small glass of spirits. {variant of hobbler (see hobble) (an obbler being taken as a nobbler)} …
