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 Nammous (Namase, Nommous or Namous), verb. (thieves').—See quots., and Skedaddle.

1857. J. E. Ritchie, Night Side of London, p. 193. Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightner.

1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.

1866. London Miscellany, 3 Mar., p. 57. It was a regular trosseno (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon nommus (cut it).

Nammow, subs. (back-slang).—A woman; delo nammow = an old woman.

Namurs (The), subs. phr., (military).—The Royal Irish Regiment, formerly The 18th Foot. Also "Paddy's Blackguards."

Nan, subs. (colloquial).—A maid.

1596. Shakspeare, Merry Wives, i., 4, 160. Good faith, it is such another Nan.

Nan-boy, subs. (common).—An effeminate man; a Miss Nancy (q.v.)

1691. Merry Drollery, 'Jovial Lover,' p. 12. The Pipe and the Flute are the new Alamode for the nan-boys.

1898. Sporting Times, 19 Feb., 1., 3. But do you think we enjoyed these superfine Miss Nancies a quarter as much as we did the daring darlings who subsequently lured them down the Madeira Drive?

2. (venery).—A catamite.

Nancy, subs. (common).—1. The breech.—Vaux (1823). See Bum and Monocular eyeglass. Ask my nancy, see quot.

1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Ask my nancy, a very vulgar recommendation, seeing that it is a mute.

Also see Nanboy.

Nanny, subs. (colloquial).—1. A goat.

2. (common).—A whore: see Barrack-hack and Tart.

Nanny-goat, subs. (colloquial).—1. An anecdote.

1860. Haliburton (Sam Slick), The Season Ticket, No. 11. I'll swop nanny goats with you, and give you best when you tell the best one.

2. (military).—In pl. = The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, formerly the Twenty-third Foot: the regiment has a pet goat which is led with garlanded horns and a shield at the head of the drums—how the custom arose is unknown. Also "The Royal Goats."

NANNY-HEN, AS NICE AS A NANNY-HEN, phr. (old).—Very affected; delicate. Cf. Nun's hen.

[?] M.S. Lambeth, 306, f. 135. Women, women, love of women Make bare purs with some men. Some be nyse as a nanne hen, Some be lewde, some all be shreude, Go schrewes where thei goo.

1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie [Halliwell]. as nice as nunnes HENNE.

Nanny-shop (or -house), subs. (common).—A brothel: in quot. 1836 the cottage of a planter's smock-servant—B. E. (c. 1696); Grose (1785).

English Synonyms. Academy; badger-crib; bawdy-house; bed-house; bread-and-butter-warehouse (specifically Ranelagh Gardens: cf. bread and butter-fashion); bum-shop; buttocking-shop (cf Fr. magasin de fesses); cab (cf. Fr. un bordel ambulant); button-hole factory; case (Old Cant); cavaulting school; Corinth; coupling-house; Covent Garden nunnery; cunt-shop; cunny-warren; disorderly-house; fancy-house; finishing-academy; fish-market; fish-pound; flash-drum (-house, or -ken); flesh-market; fuckery; garden-house; goal; green-grocery; hook-house (or -shop); also hock-house: hooker in America =