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To the uneducated, clerks were posh and therefore considered to be "nobs". Hence, nobby Clark. Both the Oxford English and the English Dialect Dictionaries list nobby as being of a rich man, a nob or toff, or “smart”, and gives it a wide distribution, so smart persons were "nobby". Nobby Clark is also cockney rhyming slang for a shark.
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.
The word has been around since the mid-19th century. Intended as a pejorative, the word is not commonly used today, though it retains that connotation. [2] [3] The term is thought to have originated in the 1850s as lime-juicer, [4] later shortened to "limey", [5] and was originally used as a derogatory word for sailors in the Royal Navy.
Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
Boggers, Bog Buggers (pejorative, alludes to the last words of King George V) [12] Bolton Trotters (originally a football term, it is now used to describe anyone from Bolton and surrounding area), Noblot (collective noun, anagram for Bolton) [13] Bo'ness Bo'neds (pejorative) Bootle Bootlickers, Bugs-in-Clogs [14] Bourne, Lincolnshire Bourne ...
~ Posh and Naughty~ Posh and Naughty is a Unique Boutique located in the Quaker Hill Section of Portsmouth, RI It is an exciting place created and owned by Trisha Smith, a single mother who came up with the idea after fighting and winning an 18 month custody battle that nearly broke her confidence, one day she used that last grain of resilency ...
An effeminate man or one that is weak or afraid. (Originally Scottish slang) [180] jism, jissom semen. [181] Jock word or term of address for a Scot. [181] Joe Bloggs A man who is average, typical or unremarkable. [182] Joe Soap An idiot, stooge or scapegoat. [182] Johnny Condom. [181] Sometimes also a 'Johnny bag' [183] or 'rubber Johnny ...
The word may be related to the Dutch word nestig, or "dirty". [73] It predates Nast by several centuries, appearing in the most famous sentence of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, that in the state of nature, the life of man is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short". That work was published in 1651, whereas Nast was born in 1840.