louisette (old); la lune à douze quartiers (= the wheel on which criminals were broken); la lunette d approche (specifically, the knife); la Marianne; la mécanique; la mére, or la mére au bleu; le monde renversé; le Monte-d-regret (= Mount Sorrowful: also monte-à-rebours); la passe; le rasoir national (so named in '93: also le rasoir à Roch, or de la Cigogne—Roche = a one-time executioner, and la Cigogne = the Préfecture of Police); la sans-feuille (= the Leafless tree, q.v.); la veuve (= the WIDOW, q.v.); la voyante.
1712. The Black Procession [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1836) 37]. Up to the nubbing cheat where they are nubb'd.
1714. John Hall, Memoirs (4th ed.), 13, s.v.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, xii. Nubbing cheat, cries Partridge, pray, sir, what is that? Why that, sir, said the stranger, is a cant phrase for the gallows.
c.1812. Maher, The Death of Socrates [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896)], . . . When he came to the nubbing-chit, He was tucked up so neat and so pretty.
1821. Martin and Avtoun ('Bon Gualtier'), in Tait's Edinburgh Mag., viii. 223. The faking boy to the crap has gone, at the nubbling-chit you'll find him.
1834. Ainsworth. Rookwood (ed. 1864), 313. I fear Dick will scarce cheat the nubbing-cheat this go. His time's up, I calculate.
Nuddikin [or Noddleken], subs.
(common).—The head.
Nuff, adj. and adv. (soldiers').—Enough.
To HAVE HAD ONE'S
nuff = to be 'elevated' or
drunk: cf. N. C.
Nug, verb. (old).—1. To fondle;
to grabble; and (2.) to swive
(q.v.). Whence my Nug = 'My
dear': a general endearment Cf.
nugging dress and nugging
house.—B. E. (c. 1696); New
Cant. Dict. (1725); Grose
(1785); Matsell (1859).
Nugget, subs. (common).—In pl.
= money: see Actual and Gilt.
1892. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 53. Keep check on the nuggets you spend.
Nuggety, adj. and adv. (Australian).—See
quot.
1887. Daily News, April 9, 5/4. The sort of man we call 'cobby,' the Americans designate 'stocky,' and the Australians style nuggetty.
Nugging-dress, subs. phr. (old).—See
quots. 1696 and 1823, Nug,
verb. and Nugging-house.
c.1696. B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Nugging-Dress. An odd or particular way, out of the Fashion.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1823. Grose, Vulg. Tongue [Egan], s.v. Nugging-dress. . . . A loose kind of a dress, denoting a courtezan.
Nugging-house, Subs. (old).—A
brothel: see Nanny-house.—Goose
(1823); Halliwell
(1847).
'nuity. subs. (American).—See quots.
1872. De Vere, Americanisms, 620, s.v. 'Nuity, a word believed by some writers to be derived from annuity, and by others to be an absurd form of knew, is thus explained.
18 [?]. Charles Nordhoff [De Vere, 620]. Tom had what the capemen call 'nuity, which means what the rest of Americans call go-aheaditiveness—a barbarous word, which no nation could coin, that did not find it easier to coin money than words.
Null, verb. (old).—To beat: see
Tan.—Grose (1785); Matsell
(1859).
