nob
pronunciation
How to pronounce nob in British English:
UK [nɒb]
How to pronounce nob in American English:
US [nɑb]
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- Noun:
- an elegantly dressed man (often with affected manners)
Word Origin
- nob (n.)
- "head," c. 1700, slang variant of knob (q.v.).
Example
- 1. Saul slaughters the priests at nob .
- 2. This very day he is stopping at nob ; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of zion , the hill of jerusalem .
- 3. We stayed at that gorgeous hotel on nob hill .
- 4. And nob , the town of the priests , he put to the sword , all the men and women , children and babies at the breast , and oxen and asses and sheep .
- 5. Then the king sent for ahimelech the priest , the son of ahitub , and for all the men of his father 's family who were priests in nob : and they all came to the king .