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nobblerize en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From nobbler + -ize.

Meanings

1. (Australia, intransitive, obsolete) To drink nobblers (servings of beer or spirits).
   • He was 'so overcome with the heat,' poor man! in lifting the mail-bag out of the cart, that he had to go and nobblerize at the 'Royal' before he felt equal to opening it. 1869, Edward Howe, The boy in the bush, page 85:
   • Some days ago a man named Kelly having nobblerized too much, kicked up a disturbance with a neighbour named Amy, whom he violently assaulted […] 1855 March 26, The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer:
   • Folks out here must love nobblerizing, / For publicans large fortunes make; / And to me it is truly surprising / The quantity some people take. 1864, Charles Robert Thatcher, Thatcher's Colonial Minstrel, page 40:

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