What's the difference between cobby and nobby?

Cobby


Definition:

  • (n.) Headstrong; obstinate.
  • (n.) Stout; hearty; lively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cobby and Ashford analyzed absorption and elimination phases of each alcohol dose separately and found no influence of meprobamate on BAC and significant heterogeneity in the residual error terms.
  • (2) The design, analysis and conclusions of the series of experiments by Carpenter et al., Ashford and Cobby, and Cobby and Ashford [J.
  • (3) The analyses of Ashford and Cobby and Cobby and Ashford used the mathematical models, which represented pharmacological and physiological actions of the drugs.
  • (4) related the results of behavioral measures to drug doses, Ashford and Cobby to the concentrations of the drugs in the blood.
  • (5) It was while working there that he met a young man nicknamed Cobby, a rebellious youth who introduced him to petty crime.

Nobby


Definition:

  • (a.) Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Needing to win by two clear goals in the return leg, Ramsey picked Nobby Stiles and Norman Hunter and Peter Storey.
  • (2) A broadcasting natural, he started out as a teenager on Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio, where he played a character called Nobby Nolevel on the Timmy Mallett show.
  • (3) Nobby Stiles, Crerand’s team-mate, tells one story in his autobiography about being hit by a dart.
  • (4) Recently, trailblazers like Sissy Nobby and Big Dipper took the risks that made it easier for others to follow.
  • (5) "How can you change Nobby to Ned and yet leave Dick and Fanny?
  • (6) HubbleWatch Van Bommel couldn't hold a candle to the likes of Chopper Harris, Norman Hunter, Nobby Stiles, Andoni Goikoetxea and Claudio Gentile.
  • (7) Summerfield had heard Hodder would change the name of the circus boy, Nobby, in Five Go Off in a Caravan, to Ned, which struck him "as very strange".

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