Nob
noun
A rich or important person.
A gathering of nobs from the art world
Often appears as...
- a real nob
- old nob
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
The head of a person.
He got a bang on the nob
Often appears as...
- bang on the nob
- bump on the nob
Usage tips
Slang
Colloquial
noun
The handle of a tool or weapon.
The nob of the sword
Often appears as...
- grab the nob
- hold the nob
noun
A knob or lump of a hard substance.
A nob of coal
Often appears as...
- nob of coal
- nob of pitch
noun
A rich or important person.
A gathering of nobs from the art world
Often appears as...
- a real nob
- old nob
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
The head of a person.
He got a bang on the nob
Often appears as...
- bang on the nob
- bump on the nob
Usage tips
Slang
Colloquial
noun
The handle of a tool or weapon.
The nob of the sword
Often appears as...
- grab the nob
- hold the nob
noun
A knob or lump of a hard substance.
A nob of coal
Often appears as...
- nob of coal
- nob of pitch
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Social Status
Used to denote high social or economic status in a slightly informal way.
The party was hosted by local nobs.
Pro Tip 2/3Mildly Derogatory
Can be used humorously or lightly disparaging to mock someone's self-importance.
He acts like such a nob since getting that promotion.
Pro Tip 3/3British Slang
Commonly recognized in the UK but may be misunderstood or unknown in other English-speaking areas.
She married a real nob and moved to London.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Status
Used to denote high social or economic status in a slightly informal way.
The party was hosted by local nobs.
Pro Tip 2/3Mildly Derogatory
Can be used humorously or lightly disparaging to mock someone's self-importance.
He acts like such a nob since getting that promotion.
Pro Tip 3/3British Slang
Commonly recognized in the UK but may be misunderstood or unknown in other English-speaking areas.
She married a real nob and moved to London.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Status
Used to denote high social or economic status in a slightly informal way.
The party was hosted by local nobs.
Pro Tip 2/3Mildly Derogatory
Can be used humorously or lightly disparaging to mock someone's self-importance.
He acts like such a nob since getting that promotion.
Pro Tip 3/3British Slang
Commonly recognized in the UK but may be misunderstood or unknown in other English-speaking areas.
She married a real nob and moved to London.
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Video examples
Safari Live - Day 150 PIPE...
that they as they were working here as they were taking the wood that they wanted from this tree they could do it in complete protection so there would have been completely underneath the surface of this dead tree I think it was probably it was a nob thorn it's got a big tree at one stage maybe a very very
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
clouds that are down in the West I think and maybe the odd marula tree or dead nob thorn or dead lead word that is going to create some beautiful photographic opportunities for all of you who are watching remember to always take screenshots it's important to keep those screenshots memories and then of
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Safari Live - Day 280 PIPE...
north on a proper migrant just sort of like a an altitude noir migrant if for once of a better word right now and they feed on seeds and they are waiting for the rainfall and they will accumulate in very large colonies generally in in very sort of stunted nob thorn vegetation
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Safari Live - Day 292 PIPE...
sticking to him he's not sinking into it but it's just enough to cool him down ever so slightly he was briefly interested in something rustling in the the pile of dried-up dead tree behind him looks like it was a nob thorn at one point in its life it is now no longer so
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Safari Live - Day 368 PIPE...
about nob thorn is that the wood is incredibly thick not incredibly thinking could it be dense now like laid wood very very heavy very solid tree and for a big old tree like this if you were to get a square meter of this heartwood
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Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
hypnic Upper blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bill black with large laterally complete compressed fleshy comb or nob on the upper mandible and prominent nail so it's basically fleshy so I think it's kind of a soft
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Safari Live - Day 59 PIPE...
packing the the side of the dam wall so that no one drives up and down them and also to help rehabilitate there's there's quite a bit of erosion that's going on and a lot of the sticks that are being used are from nob thorns
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Safari Live - Day 296 PIPE...
indeed well they are generally regarded as being quite grumpy we found a for a small group of four buffalo bulls that were just hanging out in a little watering wallow we first had us and a look at it nobs build duck
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Lessons we can learn...
have so loyally served fifty-five percent of them said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America today how could this be the country that they have so nobly bravely served feel so alien to them it's
Video examples
Up Oshetna Creek Without...
do it they when we hit deal no we hadn't found any sign of them if the hunters got stuck crossing a flooded river the rushing waters could have easily washed them downstream we ended up falling oh nob forever
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 150 PIPE...
that they as they were working here as they were taking the wood that they wanted from this tree they could do it in complete protection so there would have been completely underneath the surface of this dead tree I think it was probably it was a nob thorn it's got a big tree at one stage maybe a very very
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 118 PIPE...
clouds that are down in the West I think and maybe the odd marula tree or dead nob thorn or dead lead word that is going to create some beautiful photographic opportunities for all of you who are watching remember to always take screenshots it's important to keep those screenshots memories and then of
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 280 PIPE...
north on a proper migrant just sort of like a an altitude noir migrant if for once of a better word right now and they feed on seeds and they are waiting for the rainfall and they will accumulate in very large colonies generally in in very sort of stunted nob thorn vegetation
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 292 PIPE...
sticking to him he's not sinking into it but it's just enough to cool him down ever so slightly he was briefly interested in something rustling in the the pile of dried-up dead tree behind him looks like it was a nob thorn at one point in its life it is now no longer so
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 368 PIPE...
about nob thorn is that the wood is incredibly thick not incredibly thinking could it be dense now like laid wood very very heavy very solid tree and for a big old tree like this if you were to get a square meter of this heartwood
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
hypnic Upper blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bill black with large laterally complete compressed fleshy comb or nob on the upper mandible and prominent nail so it's basically fleshy so I think it's kind of a soft
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 59 PIPE...
packing the the side of the dam wall so that no one drives up and down them and also to help rehabilitate there's there's quite a bit of erosion that's going on and a lot of the sticks that are being used are from nob thorns
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 296 PIPE...
indeed well they are generally regarded as being quite grumpy we found a for a small group of four buffalo bulls that were just hanging out in a little watering wallow we first had us and a look at it nobs build duck
Video examples
Lessons we can learn...
have so loyally served fifty-five percent of them said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America today how could this be the country that they have so nobly bravely served feel so alien to them it's
Video examples
Up Oshetna Creek Without...
do it they when we hit deal no we hadn't found any sign of them if the hunters got stuck crossing a flooded river the rushing waters could have easily washed them downstream we ended up falling oh nob forever
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Quote examples
Edward Everett
American Statesman
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
American Politician
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
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John Linder
American Politician
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
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Abraham Lincoln
American President
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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William Shakespeare
English Playwright
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
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John Ruskin
English Writer
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
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John Webster
English Playwright
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
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Josephus Daniels
American Politician
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
Quote examples
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Quote examples
Edward Everett
American Statesman
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
Quote examples
Henry Cabot Lodge
American Politician
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.
Quote examples
John Linder
American Politician
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
Quote examples
Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Quote examples
William Shakespeare
English Playwright
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Quote examples
John Ruskin
English Writer
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Quote examples
John Webster
English Playwright
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
Quote examples
Josephus Daniels
American Politician
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.
Quote examples
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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