nobblerize

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verb

To drink nobblers (servings of beer or spirits).

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Meanings

verbnobblerize (third-person singular simple present nobblerizes, present participle nobblerizing, simple past and past participle nobblerized)

present singular third person nobblerizes · participle present nobblerizing · participle past nobblerized · past nobblerized

  1. AustraliaintransitiveobsoleteTo drink nobblers (servings of beer or spirits).

    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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    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

    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

Origin

From nobbler + -ize.

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APA

nobblerize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nobblerize

MLA

“nobblerize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nobblerize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nobblerize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nobblerize.

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