nobbling

Their first success was the nobbling of "The Observer's" senior reporter.

I'm not sorry for it myself, as I've an idea of nobbling him for Vera.

A sight of times better to be selling diments than nobbling about here.

He is very musical, and when he and Rex get nobbling over the piano and organ—there they stick!!

Peter mumbled some foolishness about nobbling Angola for Germany and starting a revolution among the natives.