ETYMOLOGY
from nob (the head) + thatch (covering)
EXAMPLE
“…Sir, I have been three months in the House of Correction, and was discharged yesterday. Mr Chesterton’s “nick” is yet fearfully visible among my hair, whence a great paucity of nob-thatch…”
From: Littell’s Living Age
Volume 11, 1846
The Complaint of a Pickpocket; John Sheppard
Lexicophilia 