nobbut

/ ˈnɒbət /

adverb

1. dialect.
   nothing but; only

Word History and Origins

Origin of nobbut¹

C14: from no ² + but ¹

Example Sentences

"You're nobbut a fond lass," commented Mrs. Jackson, cracking an egg on the side of a basin preparatory to emptying its contents into a frying-pan.

From Project Gutenberg

I don't remember t' first, because I was nobbut a little 'un, but I've heerd my faither tell on 't.

From Project Gutenberg

Be sure tha keeps fra being a flirt, An pride thysel e being alert,— An mind to mend thi husband’s shirt,       An keep it clean; It wod thy poor oud mother hurt,       If tha wor mean. p. 8Don’t kal abaht like monny a wun, Then hev to broil, an sweeat, an run; Bud, alus hev thy dinner done,       Withaht a mooild; If its nobbut meil, lass, set it on,       An hev it boiled.

From Project Gutenberg

Send our Will dahn to Tommy Spoyle Wood’s,    And tell him to send up a log; An’ tell him and Betty to come,    For Tommy’s a jolly oud dog. p. 130Aw mean to forget all my debts,    An’ aw mean to harbour no greef; Nobbut emptying glasses an’ plates    O’ their contents o’ beer and gooid beef.

From Project Gutenberg

So to sattle em dahn, Sir Chrestofer Brahn,    Hez tould em it wur his intent, If they’d nobbut be quiet till things wur all reight,    He’d give em a trip to Chow Bent. p. 103Yes, and besides a trip to Chow Bent, they gat several more trips promised bi th’ diffrent distingwisht citizens o’ Haworth. 

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