Nobbings

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Money collected by soliciting the audience during a public performance. UK, obsolete, plural, plural-only, slang

    "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."

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"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."

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