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
Definitions:
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(nabob) a rich or powerful person
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, nabob may refer to a governor in India during the Mogul empire as in Vanity Fair when Thackeray wrote, "They say all Indian nabobs are enormously rich." Archaically, the term can also reference a wealthy man who made his fortune in the Orient.