Part 52 (2/2)
NEW COLLEGE STUDENTS. Golden scholars, silver bachelors, and leaden masters.
NEW DROP. The scaffold used at Newgate for hanging of criminals; which dropping down, leaves them suspended. By this improvement, the use of that vulgar vehicle, a cart, is entirely left off.
NEW LIGHT. One of the new light; a methodist.
NEWGATE BIRD. A thief or sharper, frequently caged in Newgate.
NEWGATE SOLICITOR. A petty fogging and roguish attorney, who attends the gaols to a.s.sist villains in evading justice.
NEWMAN'S LIFT. The gallows.
NEWMAN'S TEA GARDENS. Newgate.
NEWMAN'S HOTEL. Newgate.
To NICK. To win at dice, to hit the mark just in the nick of time, or at the critical moment.
NICK. Old nick; the Devil.
NICKNAME. A name given in ridicule or contempt: from the French nom de niqne. Niqne is a movement of the head to mark a contempt for any person or thing.
NICK NINNY. A simpleton.
NICKIN, NIKEY or NIZEY. A soft simple fellow; also a diminutive of Isaac.
NICKNACKS. Toys, baubles, or curiosities.
NlCKNACKATORY. A toyshop.
NICk.u.mp.o.o.p, or NINc.u.mp.o.o.p. 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.
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