nobblerize

English

Etymology

From nobbler +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

1. (Australia, intransitive, obsolete) To drink nobblers (servings of beer or spirits).
   • 1855 March 26, The Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer:

     Some days ago a man named Kelly having nobblerized too much, kicked up a disturbance with a neighbour named Amy, whom he violently assaulted […]

   • 1864, Charles Robert Thatcher, Thatcher's Colonial Minstrel, page 40:

     Folks out here must love nobblerizing, / For publicans large fortunes make; / And to me it is truly surprising / The quantity some people take.

   • 1869, Edward Howe, The boy in the bush, page 85:

     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.