NUG.  An endearing word:  as, My dear nug; my dear love.

NUGGING dress.  An out-of-the-way old-fashioned dress,
  or rather a loose kind of dress, denoting a courtesan.

NUGGING-house.  A brothel.

To Null.  To beat:  as, He nulled him heartily.

Numbers.  To consult the book of numbers:  a term used
  in the House of Commons, when, instead of answering or
  confuting a pressing argument, the minister calls for a
  division, i.e. puts the matter to the vote.

NUMBSCULL.  A stupid fellow.

NUMMS. A sham collar, to be worn over a dirty shirt.

Nunnery.  A bawdy house.

To nurse.  To cheat:  as, they nursed him out of it.  An
  estate in the hands of trustees, for the payment of
  bdebts, is said to be at nurse.

Nuts.  It was nuts for them; i.e. it was very agreeable to
  them.

Nuts.  Fond; pleased.  She’s nuts upon her cull; she’s
  pleased with her cully.  The cove’s nutting the blowen;
  the man is trying to please the girl.

NUTCRACKERS.  The pillory:  as, The cull peeped through
  the nutcrackers.

NUTMEGS.  Testicles.

NYP, or nip.  A half pint, a nip of ale:  whence the
  nipperkin, a small vessel.

NYP shop.  The Peacock in Gray’s Inn Lane, where
  Burton ale is sold in nyps.

NYPPER.  A cut-purse:  so called by one Wotton, who in
  the year 1585 kept an academy for the education and
  perfection of pickpockets and cut-purses:  his school was
  near Billingsgate, London.  As in the dress of ancient
  times many people wore their purses at their girdles,
  cutting them was a branch of the light-fingered art,
  which is now lost, though the name remains.  Maitland,
  from Stow, gives the following account of this Wotton: 
  This man was a gentleman born, and sometime a merchant
  of good credit, but fallen by time into decay:  he kept
  an alehouse near Smart’s Key, near Billingsgate,
  afterwards for some misdemeanor put down.  He reared up a
  new trade of life, and in the same house he procured all
  the cut-purses about the city, to repair to his house;
  there was a school-house set up to learn young boys to
  cut purses:  two devices were hung up; one was a pocket,
  and another was a purse; the pocket had in it certain
  counters, and was hung about with hawks bells, and over
  the top did hang a little sacring bell.  The purse had
  silver in it; and he that could take out a counter,
  without noise of any of the bells, was adjudged a
  judicial NYPPER:  according to their terms of art, a
  FOYSTER was a pick-pocket; a NYPPER was a pick purse,
  or cut-purse.

O be joyful.  I’ll make you sing O be joyful on the
  other side of your mouth; a threat, implying the party
  threatened will be made to cry.  To sing O be easy; to
  appear contented when one has cause to complain, and
  dare not.