Nobble

Definition: Nobble

Nobble

Verb

1. Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change".

2. Make off with belongings of others.

3. Of people.

4. Disable by drugging, as of a race horse.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Nobble

Albanian

vjedh (cop, Frisk, hook, lift, mooch, peculate, pilfer, pinch, prig, purloin, Rob, salvage, scrounge, snitch, steal, take away, thieve, walk off with), mashtroj (bamboozle, befool, beguile, besot, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, cozen, deceive, defalcate, defraud, delude, diddle, do, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, fudge, gyp, hocus, hoodwink, hose, impose, jockey, juggle, lead on, mislead, mump, overreach, palter, queer, ready up, shortchange, swindle, take advantage of, take for a ride), korruptoj (buy, corrupt, ready, suborn), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), blej (buy, corrupt, purchase, shop, take). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غش (adulterate, adulteration, bilk, cheat, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, deception, defraudation, diddle, falsify, fudge, jiggery pokery, rig, sell, short, sting, swindle), ‏تعاطى المخدرات (drug, hop), ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, pick, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏خطف (abduct, carry off, gobble, hijack, kidnap, kidnapping, lift off, ravish, seizing, snatching, steal, whip), ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut, cut out, discontinue, estop, garage, halt, hinder, intercept, kill, nick, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off), ‏أبعده عن السباق. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, hunt down, land, nail, nip, pick up, pot, prey upon, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), открадвам (kidnap, make away with, nip, pick, pinch, pull, purloin, run away with, snatch, steal, walk away with, walk off with), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim). (various references)

Czech

znemožnit (make impossible), sbalit (bag, nab, pack, pack up), koupit si (acquire). (various references)

French

soudoyer, rafler, pincer, faucher, choper, acheter. (various references)

Greek 

σουφρώνω (curl, nab, pilfer, pinch, pucker, shirr, swipe), ευγενήσ (civil, courteous, courtly, debonair, gallant, genteel, gentle, gentlemanly, gracious, kindly, ladylike, nobleman, patrician, polite, soulful, thoroughbred, urbane, well mannered). (various references)

Hungarian

elkábít (fluster, fuddle, narcotize, stun, stupefy, to befuddle, to bemuse, to deaden, to drug, to narcotize, to numb, to obfuscate, to stupefy), becsap (cheat, chouse, deceive, delude, diddle, double cross, fob, gyp, hocus, hocus pocus, mislead, renege, slam, spoof, string along, take in, to abuse, to bang, to bilk, to bluff, to chisel, to con, to cozen, to deceive, to delude, to dupe, to finagle, to fox, to gull, to hoax, to hocus, to hocus-pocus, to hoodwink, to humbug, to jink, to keep tricking sy, to kid, to let in, to let into, to mock at sg, to nick, to nick sy for sg, to pass the buck, to pole, to put off, to renege, to rook, to scam, to shaft, to shuck, to spoof, to suck sy in, to swindle, to take in, to trick, to victimize, two time). (various references)

Italian

drogare (dope, drug, hocus, season, spice, take drugs), azzoppare (cripple, hamstring, lame). (various references)

Pig Latin

obblenay.(various references)

Portuguese

subornar (boodle, bribe, buy off, grease, palm, placate, suborn), peitar (palm, suborn), incapacitar (disable, disenable, disentitle, disqualify, incapacitate, unfit), corromper (adulterate, attaint, bribe, canker, contaminate, defile, foul, mislead, palm, pervert, poison, spoil, subvert, taint, vitiate). (various references)

Romanian

unge (anoint, besmear, coat, dab, daub, dope, dub, embrocate, grease, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, oil, oil smb.'s palms, palm, pomade, salve, smear, soap, whitewash), trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, fool, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, take in, trick, wangle), subtiliza (lift, sneak, subtilize), sfeterisi (knock off, lift, make away with, pick, prig, sneak), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, fool, gammon, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trick, trump, twist), mitui (bribe, buy, buy over, corrupt, gild, gratify, grease smb.'s palm, lubricate, oil smb.'s palms, palm, suborn), face inapt pentru curse, şterpeli (annex, bag, filch, knock off, nibble, pilfer, pinch, scrounge, steal, whisk), înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, trick, victimize). (various references)

Russian 

украсть (crook, filch, pinch, snaffle, steal, thieve, walk off with), жульничать (cheat, chouse, con, play foul), подкупить, испортить лошадь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

plemićki (cloak-and-sword, manorial, nobiliary, noble, nobly, patrician). (various references)

Spanish

narcotizar a un caballo, sobornarse (bribe), sobornar (bribe, buy, buy over, get at, grease the palm, palm, Square, suborn, sweeten, touch), procurar hablar con, pisar (back up, collar, enter, footle, press, push, set foot, step, trample, tread, tread down, wend one's way), persuadir por medios nada rectos, estropear a un caballo, ejercer presión sobre (bear down, press), drogar a un caballo, coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, get hold of, go down, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nab, nail, pick, pick up, pinch, pluck, seize, take, take on, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, trip up, yank off), birlar (bone, knock down, knock off, lift, mooch, Nick, snaffle, sneak, whip), abordar (accost, accosts, approach, board, collide with, come up to, crash into, engage, get down, land, tackle). (various references)

Swedish

fixa (do in, fix up, set up). (various references)

Turkish

yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, tackle, take, take up, trap), sakatlamak (cripple, disable, flaw, hamstring, injure, lame, maim, Mar, mutilate), rüşvetle kazanmak, dolandırmak (bilk, bunco, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in), çalmak (abstract, adopt, bag, beat, beat out, blow, chime, cop, crib, defalcate, filch, finger, grind, grind out, heist, hijack, hoist, hook, hoot, incline, jangle, jingle, knelt, knock, knock off, lift, make off with, mooch, peal, pilfer, pinch, play, plunder, rap, render, ring, rustle, scrounge, sneak, snitch, sound, steal, strike, swipe, tend, thieve, toll, twang, verge, verge into, verge on, walk away with, walk off with, whip). (various references)

Ukrainian

схопити (bag, capture, grip, gripe, nip, reach at, take hold, whip away, yank), украсти (cop, filch, nab, nip, pilfer, snaffle), спіймати (capture, catch, cop, get, hunt down, recapture, seize, snaffle), обвести, обдурити (best, diddle, do in, head off), зіпсувати коня перед змаганням, зшахрувати, арештувати (bring up, nab, nail, nip, put under arrest, run in, shop, take into custody), підкупити, дати хабара (buy over, oil the wheels). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nobble": nobbled, nobbler, nobblers, nobbles. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: noble.

-2 letters: bleb, blob, bole, bone, ebon, enol, leno, lobe, lone, noel.

-3 letters: bel, ben, bob, ebb, eon, lob, neb, nob, obe, ole, one.

-4 letters: be, bo, el, en, lo, ne, no, oe, on.

+1 letter: nobbled, nobbler, nobbles.

+2 letters: bondable, nobblers.

+3 letters: knobblier.

+4 letters: abominable, beblooding, belaboring, bluebonnet, clobbering, combinable, knobbliest, obnubilate, obtainable, ribbonlike, slobbering, wobbliness.

+5 letters: belabouring, bellybutton, bluebonnets, bobsledding, cobblestone, nonburnable, obnubilated, obnubilates, undoubtable.