The Only Use of
nabob
in
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- He had the whitest shirt on you ever see, too, and the shiniest hat; and there ain't a man in that town that's got as fine clothes as what he had; and he had a gold watch and chain, and a silver-headed cane—the awfulest old gray-headed nabob in the State.
Chpt 6nabob = a rich or powerful person