Topic: | Re: nobs and nabobs | |
Posted by: | Stuart Kerr | |
Date/Time: | 26/08/15 09:36:00 |
I suspect knobs have nothing to do with nobs... .. there was a very good TV play (back in the days when the BBC made lots of them) called “Nob and Nabob”... A Nabob being an 18th or 19th century “fat-cat” who made his fortune in the Orient (with the East India Company) before an ostentatious return to England and a display of his wealth.. ..the word nob may well be a derivative of Nabob... |