5 July 2016

nob (1)

[nob]

noun

1. Slang. the head.
2. Cribbage.. Sometimes, his nobs. the jack of the same suit as the card turned up, counting one to the holder.

Origin of nob(1)

1690-1700; perhaps variant of knob

Can be confused

knob, nob.

nob (2)

[nob]

noun, Chiefly British Slang.

1. a person of wealth or social importance.

Origin

1745-55; earlier knabb (Scots), nab; of uncertain origin

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Examples from the Web for nob

Contemporary Examples

Open since 1912, it is a counter with 20 or so seats situated on a busy street in between nob Hill and Russian Hill.
The Easygoing Flair of San Francisco
Jolie Hunt
April 9, 2010

Historical Examples

Then Saul sent for Ahimelech the priest, and all his family and the priests who were in nob ; and all of them came to him.
The Children’s Bible
Henry A. Sherman

Hob or nob is explained by him to mean “Will you have a glass of wine or not?”
Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853
Various

Today’s quote

Everyone is crying out for peace, yes
None is crying out for justice

– Peter Tosh

On this day

5 July 1937 – The canned meat, Spam (spiced ham) released to market by Hormel Food Corporation.

5 July 1946 – the first bikini goes on sale after its debut at a fashion show in Paris. It was designed by Parisian engineer, Louis Réard. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean where the USA had been conducting testing of atomic bombs. Réard hoped that the bikini would have an ‘explosive commercial and cultural reaction’ just like an atomic bomb.

5 July 1989 – Former US Marine and white-house aide, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North given a three-year suspended sentence, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours of community service after being convicted of ‘accepting an illegal gratuity’, ‘aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry’ and ordering the destruction of documents during his role in the Iran-Contra affair (a political scandal during the Reagan administration in which the US government was selling weapons via intermediaries to Iran, a nation that was blacklisted from receiving weapons. The profits were channeled through Nicaraguan terrorist groups, the Contras, which were violently opposing Nicaragua’s ruling left-wing Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction).

5 July 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.