Nobby
See also: nobby
English
Proper noun
Nobby
- A diminutive of the male given name Norbert.
- 2009 Jeff Carlisle, Soccer's Most Wanted II, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 234:
- Nobby Stiles
- Norbert is a moniker one normally doesn't associate with one of the game's most intimidating midfielders, but "Nobby" provided the steel for the England side that prevailed in the 1966 World Cup, and his gap-toothed visage would have earned him a guest spot in the movie Halloween.
- 2009 Jeff Carlisle, Soccer's Most Wanted II, Potomac Books, Inc., →ISBN, page 234:
- A diminutive of the female given name Zenobia.
- 1855 Watts Phillips, The Wild Tribes of London, page 49:
- There's Nobby, now―here he indicates Zenobia with his pipe―"as has 'ad a whole cartload o' troubles, besides me a riding on the shafts, an' that's bad enough, an't it, Nobby?"
- 1855 Watts Phillips, The Wild Tribes of London, page 49:
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