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 The house of noodles, subs. phr. (old).—See quot.

1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Noodle. The House of Noodles, the Upper Nobs' house at Palace Yard, Westminster.

Verb. (common).—To fool.

1829. The Lag's Lament [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), iii]. He so prewailed on the treach'rous varmint That she was noodled by the Bow St. sarmint.

Noodledom, subs. (colloquial).—The world of fools.

Nookery, subs. (colloquial).—A snug corner; a place of hiding.

1857. Old Song, 'The Leary Man' [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 154]. Then go to St. Giles's Rookery, And live up some strange nookery To be a Leary Man.

Noom, subs. (back-slang).—The moon; Oliver (q.v.).

Noose (or Nooze), verb. (common).—1. To hang.—B. E. (c. 1696); Grose (1785).

1676. Warning for Housekeepers [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 32]. And when that he hath noosed us.

c.1712. Old Ballads, 'The Twenty Craftsmen' [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 37]. None shall be nooz'd if you find but one true.

1754. Scoundrel's Dict. If they catch him horse-stealing he's nooz'd for all.

1809. Scott, The Poacher. Our buckskinn'd justices expound the law, Wire-draw the acts that fix for wires the pain, And for the netted partridge nooze the swain.

2. (old).—To marry. Whence noosing = a wedding; noose (or marriage-noose) = the nuptial knot.—B. E. (c. 1699); Grose (1785); Matsell (1859).

1617. C. Shadwell, Fair Quaker of Deal, iv. I'll take the freedom of sending for our noble commodore and his lady too, who are by this time noozed.

1693. Dryden, Juvenal, vi. 59. To thrust his neck in the marriage-noose!

1694. Crowne, Married Beau, i. 1. Works (1874), iv. 258. I'm loth to noose myself in marriage.

1748. Dyche; Dictionary (5th ed.). Nooze (V.) in the Cant Language, it means both to marry and to hang.

1751. Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, xxix. The lieutenant, with a sly regard, pronounced, 'Tunley, warn't you noozed by the curate?'

1771. Smollett, Humphry Clinker. Letter 52. His indefatigable rival ordered a post-chaise, and set out with the lady for Coldstream, a few miles up the Tweed, where there was a person who dealt in this branch of commerce, and there they were noosed.

1821. Combe, Syntax, Wife, v. Nay, on the third or fourth day after: They were both noos'd in Hymen's garter.

1828-45. T. Hood, Poems, i. 22 (ed. 1846). Next to that interesting job The hanging of Jack, or Bill, or Bob, There's nothing do draws a London mob As the noosing of very rich people.

1901. St. James's Gaz., 7 Feb., 8, 5. The attendant announced that the bride and bridegroom were at the altar. "Oh, if that's so," said the Bishop to Wesley, "let's go and tie the noose!"

Nope, subs. (old).—A blow.—Grose (1785); Matsell (1859).

Nope, intg. (American).—'No.'

Noras, subs. pl. (Stock Exchange).—Great Northern Railway Deferred Ordinary Stock.

1887. Atkin, House Scraps. For we have our Sarahs and Claras, Our Noras and Doras for fays.

Norfolk-capon, subs. (common).—A red herring: see Glasgow Magistrate.—Grose (1785).

1836. Smith, The Individual, 4. A Norfolk capon is jolly grub.

Norfolk-dumpling, subs. phr. (old).—See quot. 1785.