1708-10. Swift, Polite Conversations, i. Miss. She's no better than she should be. Lady Smart. Well . . . the world is very censorious: I never heard that she was a naughty-pack.
1772. Coles, Eng.-Lat. Dict., s.v
1869. Hall [Lyndsay, Satyre of the Three Estaitis (E. E. T. S.), 498, Note]. The wealth of the prelates keeps our daughters unwedded. And some of them go naughty.
1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 118. Lady Mayfield's history was pretty well-known, and the naughtiness surrounding her past life added a piquant flavour of excitement to the curiosity manifested on the occasion.
1896. Cotsford Dick, Ways of the World, 12. J. is the juvenile maiden of forty, Who hopes it's not wrong, but she longs to be naughty. Ibid., 18. French songs, that are tant soit peu naughty.
1898. Le Queux, Scribes and Pharisees, iv. If a poet isn't naughty now-a-days, nobody reads him.
2. (old).—Flash.
1864. Vance, Chickaleary Cave. My downy kicksies . . . Built on a plan werry naughty.
Naughty-pack, subs. (old colloquial).—1.
See Naughty.
2. (modern).—A half reproving endearment of children.
Navel, subs. (old colloquial)—Combinations
are: proud below
the navel = amorous, or
wanton; navel-tied = inseparable;
to gall one's navel =
to wax wanton; To wriggle
navels = to copulate. See Cunt-itch;
Greens; Prick-proud;
Ride.
1629. Davenant, Albovine, i. When I see her I grow proud below the navel.
1767. Ray, Proverbs [Bohn], 52. They have tied their navels together, i.e., they are inseparable companions.
Navigator, subs. (rhyming slang).—A
potato; 'tatur. Navigator
Scot = a hot baked potato.
Also Nav.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xiv. As we were dining, in came North Eye carrying a dish from the bake-house, a sheep's knock over a dollop of navs.
Navvy, subs. (old: now recognised).—An
abbreviation of 'navigator':
a term humorously applied to
excavators employed in cutting
and banking canals, making dykes
to rivers, &c.
1848. C. Kingsley, Yeast, xl. There's enough of me to make a good navigator if all trades fail.
1863. Fawcett, Pol. Econ., ii., v. It was proved that one English navvy would do as much work as two French labourers.
1865. M. E. Braddon, Henry Dunbar, xxvi. Great wooden barricades and mountains of uprooted paving-stones, amidst which sturdy navigators disported themselves with spades and pickaxes . . . blocked the way.
1872. Builder, Aug. The class of men employed in earthwork were very peculiar, and very unlike the ordinary labourers of the country. They were called navvies, from having been employed originally upon works of internal navigation, and they came from the Northern counties, especially Lancashire.
Navy-office, subs. (old).—See
quot.
1823. Grose, Vulg. Tongue [Egan], s.v. Navy Office. The Fleet Prison. Commander of the Fleet: the warden of the Fleet prison.
Navy-sherry, subs. (American).—Man-of-war
grog.
Nawpost. Mr. Nawpost, subs.
phr. (old).—'A foolish fellow.'—B.
E. (c.1696); Grose (1785).
Nay, verb. (old colloquial).—To
deny.
