Meanings
nounnobbings pl (plural only)
- UKobsoletepluralplural onlyslangMoney collected by soliciting the audience during a public performance.
He began with his part of the performance whilst I was dressing up the table. It was covered with black velvet with fringe, and the apparatus ranged on it. After him I began my performance, and he went round for the nobbings.
1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861
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