subs. (pugilists’).—1. The administration of blows on the head.
1825. T. JONES, The True Bottom’d Boxer [FARMER, Musa Pedestris (1896), 92]. With flipping and milling, and fobbing and NOBBING.
2. In pl. (showmen’s).—Money collected: see NOBBER.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, III. 118. After him I began my performance, and he went round for the NOBBINGS.
