Nob-work, subs. (common).—Mental occupation.
Nockandro (or Nock), subs. (old).—1.
The posteriors; The bum
(q.v.). [Nock = notch + Gr.
andros = a man].—Grose (1785);
Nares (1822).
1632. Cotgrave, Dict., s.v. Cul. An arse, bumme, tayle, nockandro, fundament.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, i 194. My foul nockandrow all bemerded.
1654. Gayton, Fest. Notes, 14. Blest be Dulcinea, whose favour I beseeching, Rescued poor Andrew, and his nock-andro from breeching.
1662. Rump Songs, ii. 85. The Rump Carbonado'd, 41. Lenthall now Lords it though the Rabble him mock, In calling him Speaker, and Speaker to the Dock, For an hundred pound more hee'l kiss their very nock.
1663. Butler, Hudibras, 1. i. 285. But when the date of nock was out, Off drop't the sympathetic snout.
1775. Ash, Dict., s.v. Nock . . . the aperture of the fundament.
2. (venery).—The female pudendum: see Monosyllable.
1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, Cunno a womans nocke.
1675. Cotton, Scoffer Scofft, in Works (1725), p. 278. It being pretty coldish weather, He needs must have us lie together; And so we did . . . When . . . Twixt some twelve and one o'clock, He tilts his tantrum at my nock.
Verb. (venery).—See quot. 1775. Cf. knock, verb. See Greens and Ride.
1568. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Cunnata, a woman nocked.
1775. Ash, Dict., s.v. Nock, to perform the act of generation on a female.
Nocky, subs. (old).—A simpleton;
a dullard. Also nocky-boy, and
as adj.—B. E. (c. 1696); Grose
(1785); Matsell (1859).
Nocturne, subs. (venery).—A
prostitute; a night piece (q.v.):
see Barrack-hack and Tart.
Nod, verb. (colloquial).—To be
stupid or dull.
The land of nod, subs. phr. (colloquial).—Sleep. [Cf. 'the Land of Nod on the East of the Jordan' (q.v.), Gen. iv. 16.]
1608-10. Swift, Polite Conversation, iii. Col. I'm going to the land of Nod. Neverout. Faith, I'm for Bedfordshire.
1819. Scott, Tales of my Landlord, iii. 124. And d'ye ken, lass, said Madge, there's queer things chanced since ye hae been in the land of nod.
1823. Grose, Vulg. Tongue [Egan], s.v.
1828. Hood, Miss Kilmansegg. A first-class carriage of ease, In the land of nod, or where you please.
1889. Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. So he waked it up, and all baby did was to open its little eyes, sniff, smile sleepily, and go right off again to the land of nod.
1892. Hume Nisbet, Bushranger's Sweetheart, 275. We flung ourselves down on our blankets, and were soon in the land of nod.
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse, phr. (colloquial).—Said of a covert hint—an allusion not put into plain words.
1831. Buckstone, Beggar Boy, i. 1. Jean (laughing.) You understand him by that? Bart. To be sure I do! A nod's as good as a wink for a blind horse, you know, master.
1837. Richard Brinsley Peake, A Quarter To Nine, ii. A nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.
1889. Evg. Standard, 25 June. A wink was as good as a nod, and trainers and jockeys . . . easily gathered whether a particular horse was only out for an airing, &c.
