Nobs

Created by Unknown User (ajm3), last modified by Unknown User (mnt5) on Apr 24, 2015

1. (adj.) (abbrv.) Used by History of the English Language students to express that a word is "not obsolete". "How about the word ‘nasty’?" "Nobs". A. Moak 2010Obsolete as of 2015 (Toran, N-R, 2015).

Comments:

I am under the impression that this word was used exclusively by the Fall 2010 History of the English Language class, since (to my knowledge) its usage hasn’t carried over into the Fall 2012 HotEL class, unless other groups have started using this term. So my guess is that this word should be marked obsolete. (Montelli, N-R, 2012.)

Posted by cam37 at Nov 21, 2012 16:06

Based on survey results, this word is obsolete (E Short, N-R, 2019). 

Posted by ecs6 at Apr 07, 2019 15:40

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