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NOBBLING | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
to persuade someone to do what you want them to do, especially by using money or threats: The jury who convicted him were suspected of being nobbled.
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NOBBLING Synonyms: 124 Similar and Opposite Words
Synonyms for NOBBLING: cheating, squeezing, plucking, stinging, hustling, screwing, sticking, beating; Antonyms of NOBBLING: missing, discharging, freeing, ...
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NOBBLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
1. British : to incapacitate (a racehorse) especially by drugging 2. British slang a : to win over to one's side b : steal c : swindle, cheat d : to get hold ...
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nobbling
▪ I. nobbling, vbl. n. (ˈnɒblɪŋ) [f. nobble v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb, in various senses.1847 Illustr. Lond. News 6 Nov. 302/1 What is the play at a German watering-place compared with the..‘nobbling’ and ‘hocussing’ of a race course. 1865 Pall Mall G. 21 Aug. 11/2 Brickwood was umpire, in...
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nobbling, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun nobbling is in the 1840s. OED's earliest evidence for nobbling is from 1847, in Illustrated London News. nobbling is formed ...
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14 Synonyms & Antonyms for NOBBLING - Thesaurus.com
nobbling · blandishment · blarney · cajolery · fair words · flattery · honeyed words · incense · insincere flattery · smooth talk · snow job · soft soap · sweet ...
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Pulling Moves
These schemes vary from nobbling pigeon-racing to dog-breeding, and always with something funny happening to the group.
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NOBBLE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
nobble · 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.
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nobbling noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes
the activity of preventing a horse from winning a race, for example by giving it drugs. Questions about grammar and vocabulary?
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Nobbling - Urban Dictionary
To decieve or cheat. "He nobbled me out of my inheritance"; "She nobbled the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier nobbled me ...
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nobbling, adj. meanings, etymology and more
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective nobbling. See 'Meaning & use' for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is now obsolete. It ...
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Nobble Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
to cause or force (someone) to do something that you want by offering money, making threats, etc. She was trying to nobble the jury. nobble a witness.
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nobble
▪ I. nobble, v. slang. (ˈnɒb(ə)l) [Of obscure origin.] 1. a. trans. To tamper with (a horse), as by drugging or laming it, in order to prevent it from winning a race.1847 [see nobbling vbl. n.]. 1859 Lever D. Dunn iv, A shadowy vision of creditors ‘done’, horses ‘nobbled’. 1868 Pall Mall G. 4 May (F...
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All Our Saturdays
(7 March 1973)
"Come Home Stan Maycock" (14 March 1973)
"When The Nobbling Had To Stop" (21 March 1973)
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toki
‖ toki N.Z. (ˈtɔki) [Maori.] A Maori war adze or axe, usu. of stone. Freq. with defining addition.1860 A. S. Atkinson Let. 9 Apr. in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 559 It was perfectly innocuous, I believe, in the ordinary way of guns and was probably intended not to hit us but to frighten us in...
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