NlCKNACKATORY. A toyshop.
NICKUMPOOP, or NINCUMPOOP. A foolish fellow;
also
one who never saw his wife’s ****.
NIFFYNAFFY fellow. A trifler.
NIG. The clippings of money. Nigging; clipping.
Nigler,
a clipper. Cant.
Niggling. Cutting awkwardly, trifling; also
accompanying
with a woman.
Night magistrate. A constable.
Nightingale. A soldier who, as the term
is, sings out
at the halberts. It is a point of
honour in some
regiments, among the grenadiers, never
to cry out,
become nightingales, whilst under the
discipline of the
cat of nine tails; to avoid which, they
chew a bullet.
NIGHTMAN. One whose business it is to empty necessary
houses in London, which is always done
in the night; the
operation is called a wedding. See
wedding.
NIGMENOG. A very silly fellow.
To Nim. To steal or pilfer: from
the German nemen, to
take. Nim a togeman; steal a cloak.
NIMGIMMER. A physician or surgeon, particularly
those
who cure the venereal disease.
Nine lives. Cats are said to have nine
lives, and women
ten cats lives.
Ninny, or ninnyhammer. A simpleton.
Nip. A cheat. Bung nipper; a cutpurse.
Nip cheese. A nick name for the purser
of a ship: from
those gentlemen being supposed sometimes
to nip, or
diminish, the allowance of the seamen,
in that and every
other article. It is also applied
to stingy persons in
general.
NIPPERKIN. A small measure.
Nipps. The sheers used in clipping money.
Nit SQUEEGER, i.e. squeezer. A hair-dresser.
Nix. Nothing.
No catchy no HAVY. If I am not
caught, I cannot be hurt.
Negro saying.
Nob. A king. A man of rank.
Nob. The head.
NOBTHATCHER. A peruke-maker.
Nock. The breech; from Nock, a notch.
NOCKY boy. A dull simple fellow.
Nod. He is gone to the land of nod; he is asleep.
Noddle. The head.
Noddy. A simpleton or fool. Also a
kind of low cart,
with a seat before it for the driver,
used in and about
Dublin, in the manner of a hackney coach:
the fare is
just half that of a coach, for the same
distance; so
that for sixpence one may have a set down,
as it is
called, of a mile and half, and frequently
a tumble
down into the bargain: it is called
a noddy from the
nutation of its head. Knave noddy;
the old-fashioned
name for the knave of trumps.
Noisy dog racket. Stealing brass knockers from doors.


