NICK NINNY. A fimpleton.. NICKIN, NIKEY, or NIZEY. A foft fimple fellow; alfe - a diminutive of Ifaac. NICKNACKS. Toys, baubles, or curiofities. NICKUMPOOP, or NINCUM POOP. A foolish fellow; alfo one who never faw his wife's ****. NIFFYNAFFY FELLOW. A trifler. NIG. The clippings of money. Nigging; clipping. Nigler; a clipper. Cant. NIGGLING. Cutting aukwardly, trifling; alfo accompanying with a woman. NIGHTINGALE. A foldier who, as the term is, fings out at the halberts. It is a point of honour in some regiments, among the grenadiers, never to cry out, or 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 neceffary houses in London, which is always done in the night: the operation is called a wedding. See WEDDING. NIGIT. A fool: feemingly a corruption and contraction of the words an idiot. NIGMENOG. A very filly fellow. To NIM. To fteal or pilfer: from the German nemen, to take. Nim a togeman; fteal a cloak. NIMGIMMER. A phyfician or furgeon, particularly those who cure the venereal difeafe. NINE LIVES. Cats are faid to have nine lives, and women ten cats lives. NINE SHILLINGS. Corruption of nonchalance. NINNY, or NINNYHAMMER. A fimpleton. NIP CHEESE. A nick name for the purfer of a fhip: from thofe gentlemen being fuppofed fometimes to nip, or diminish, the allowance of the feamen, in that and every other article. It is alfo applied to ftingy perfons in ge neral. NIPPERKIN. A fmall measure. NIPPS. NOS NIPPS. The fheers ufed in clipping money. NIT SQUEEGER, i. e. SQUEEZER. A hair dreffer. NO CATCHY NO HAVY. If I am not caught, I cannot be hurt. Negro faying. NOB. The head. Nock. The breech: from nock, a notch. NOCKY BOY. A dull fimple fellow. NOD. He is gone to the land of nod; he is alleep. NODDY. A fimpleton or fool. Alfo a kind of buggy, or one- NON-CON. A nonconformist, prefbyterian, or any other dif fenter. NONE-SUCH. One that is unequalled: frequently applied ironically. NOOZED. Married, hanged. NOPE. A blow: as, I took him a nope on the costard. NORFOLK DUMPLING. A nick name, or term of jocular reproach to a Norfolk man; dumplings being a favourite food in that country. NORTHUMBERLAND. Lord Northumberland's arms; a black eye fo called in the last century. NORWAY NECKLOTH. The pillory, ufually made of Norway fir. NOSE. As plain as the nofe on your face; evidently to be seen. He is led by the nofe; he is governed. To follow one's nofe; to go ftraight forward. To put one's nofe out of joint; to rival one in-the favour of any perfon. To make a bridge of NY P of any one's nofe; to pafs by him in drinking. To nofe a ftink; to fmell it. He cut off his nofe to be revenged of his face; faid of one who, to be revenged on his neighbour, has materially injured himself. To NOSE. To bully. NOSE BAG. A bag faftened to the horfe's head, in which the foldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their horses whence the faying of, I fee the nose bag in his face; i. e. he has been a private man, or rode private. NOSE GENT. A nun. NOSTRUM. A medicine prepared by particular perfons only, a quack medicine. NOTCH. The private parts of a woman. NOTE. He changed his note; he told another fort of a story. NOZZLE. The nofe of a man or woman.' NUB. The neck; alfo coition. NUBBING. Hanging. Nubbing cheat; the gallows. Nub bing cove; the hangman. Nubbing ken; the feffions house. NUG. An endearing word: as, My dear nug; my dear love. NUGGING DRESS. An out-of-the-way old-fashioned dress. TO NULL. To beat: as, He nulled him heartily. NUMBERS. To confult the book of numbers; a term ufed in the House of Commons, when, inftead of answering or confuting a preffing argument, the minifter calls for a divifion, i. e. puts the matter to the vote. NUMBSCULL. A ftupid fellow. NUMMS. A fham collar, to be worn over a dirty shirt. NUPSON. A cully, a fool. TO NURSE. To cheat: as, They nurfed him out of it. An eftate in the hands of trustees, for the payment of debts, is faid to be at nurse. Nurs. It was nuts for them; i. e. it was very agreeable to them. NUTCRACKERS. The pillory: as, The cull peeped through the nutcrackers. NUTMEGS. Tefticles. NYP, or NIP. A half pint, a nyp of ale: whence the nipperkin, a small vessel. NYP NY P NYP SHOP. The Peacock in Gray's Inn Lane, where Burton ale is fold in nyps. NYPPER. A cut-purfe: fo called by one Wotton, who in the year 1585 kept an academy for the education and perfection of pick-pockets and cut-purses: his school was near Billingfgate, London. As in the drefs of ancient times many people wore their purfes at their girdles, cutting them was a branch of the light-fingered art, which is now loft, 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 Billingfgate, afterwards for fome mifdemeanor put down. He reared up a new trade of life, and in the fame houfe he procured all the cut-purfes about the city, to repair to his house; there was a school house fet up to learn young boys to cut purfes: two devices were hung up; one was a pocket, and another was a purfe; the pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung about with hawks bells, and over the top did hang a little facring bell. The purfe had filver in it; and he that could take out a counter, without noife of any of the bells, was adju‹ged a judicial nypper: according to their terms of art, a foyfter was a pick-pocket; a nypper was a pick-purse, or cut-purfe. OB BE JOYFUL. I'll make you fing O be joyful on the other fide of your mouth; a threat, implying the party threatened will be made to cry, OLAF. OLD OAF. A filly fellow. OAFISH. Simple. OAK. A rich man, a man of good fubftance and credit. To fport oak; to fhut the outward door of a student's room at college. An oaken towel; an oaken cudgel. To rub a man down with an oaken towel; to beat him. OATS. He has fowed his wild oats; he is staid, or sober, having left off his wild tricks. OAR. To put in one's oar; to intermeddle, or give an opinion unasked: as, To be fure, you must put in your oar! OBSTROPULOUS. Vulgar mifnomer of obftreperous: as, I was going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obftropulous. OCCUPY. To occupy a woman; to have carnal knowledge of her. OCTOGONIANS. This ancient and honourable order met, Nov. 16, 1750, at the Ship and Anchor, Temple Bar. ODDS PLUT AND HER NAILS. A Welch oath, frequently (mentioned in a jocular manner by perfons, it is hoped, ignorant of its meaning; which is, By God's blood, and the nails with which he was nailed to the cross. QDD-COME-SHORTLYS. I'll do it one of thefe odd-comefhortlys; I will do it fome time or another. OGLES. Eyes. Rum ogles; fine eyes. OIL OF BARLEY, or BARLEY BROTH. Strong beer. OIL OF GLADNESS. I will anoint you with the oil of gladnefs; ironically fpoken for, I will beat you. OIL OF STIRRUP. A dofe the cobler gives his wife when ever he is obftropulous. OLD. Ugly. Cant. OLD DOG AT IT. Expert, accustomed. OLD HAND. Knowing or expert in any business. OLD HARRY. A compofition ufed by vintners to adulterate their wines; alfo a nick-name for the Devil. QLD LING. See OLD HAT. OLD MR. GORY. A piece of gold. OLD NICK. The Devil: from Neken, the evil spirit of the narth. OLD |