nap the teaze
To be privately whipped in prison.
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Expressions you’ll hear in Britain and Ireland — distinctly British usage first, then widespread staples.
napper
The head; also a cheat or thief.
napper of naps
A sheep stealer. CANT.
napping
To take any one napping; i.e. to come upon him unexpectedly, to find him asleep: as, He caught him napping, as Morse caught his mare.
nark
A person in the pay of the police; a common informer; one who gets his living by laying traps for publicans, &c. Sometimes called a "nose."
narrow
Mean, sordid.—Scotch. In common slang, dull of comprehension, as distinguished from wide awake.
nasty
Ill-tempered, cross-grained. "He was very NASTY," i.e., he was ill-humoured.
nation
An abbreviation of damnation: a vulgar term used in Kent, Sussex, and the adjacent counties, for very. Nation good; very good. A nation long way; a very long way.
nation
Or TARNATION, very, or exceedingly. Corruption of damnation.
natty
Pretty, neat, tidy.—Old.
natty lads
Young thieves or pickpockets. CANT.
natural
A mistress, a child; also an idiot. A natural son or daughter; a love or merry-begotten child, a bastard.
natural
An idiot, a simpleton. Sometimes HALF-NATURAL.
navigator scot
Baked potatoes all hot.
navigators
Taturs,—vulgar pronunciation of potatoes.
navvy
An excavator employed in making railways, canals, &c. Originally slang, but now a recognised term. Short for navigator, a term humorously applied to excavators when their chief work was that of cutting and banking canals, making dykes to rivers, &c.
navy office
The Fleet prison. Commander of the Fleet; the warden of the Fleet prison.
nay word
A bye-word, proverb.
nazakene foretop
The foretop of a wig made in imitation of Christ's head of hair, as represented by the painters and sculptors.
nazy
Drunken. Nazy cove or mort; a drunken rogue or harlot. Nazy nabs; drunken coxcombs.
neardy
A person in authority over another; master, parent, or foreman.—North.
neat
Unmixed with water. "Two half goes of gin, one NEAT, the other cold," meaning one as drawn, the other diluted with cold water. The Americans use the word "straight" instead of NEAT: "I’ll take mine straight."
neck
To swallow. Neck-oil, drink of any kind.
neck and crop
Entirely, completely; "he chuck’d him NECK AND CROP out of window."
neck beef
A synonym for coarseness. "As coarse as neck ends of beef."
neck or nothing
Desperate. Originally a steeplechase phrase.
neck stamper
The boy who collects the pots belonging to an alehouse, sent out with beer to private houses.
neck verse
Formerly the persons claiming the benefit of clergy were obliged to read a verse in a Latin manuscript psalter: this saving them from the gallows, was termed their neck verse: it was the first verse of the fiftyfirst psalm, Miserere mei,&c.
neckinger
A cravat. See MUCKENGER.
ned
A guinea. HALF-NED, half-a-guinea.
neddy
A considerable quantity, as "a NEDDY of fruit," "a NEDDY of fish," &c.—Irish slang.
needful
Money, cash; the "one thing NEEDFUL" for the accomplishment of most pet designs.
needle
To annoy. To "cop the NEEDLE" is to become vexed or annoyed.
negligee
A woman's undressed gown, Vulgarly termed a neggledigee.
negroe
A black-a-moor: figuratively used for a slave. I'll be no man's negro; I will be no man's slave.
negroe's heads
Brown leaves delivered to the ships in ordinary.
nescio
He sports a Nescio; he pretends not to understand any thing. After the senate house examination for degrees, the students proceed to the schools, to be questioned by the proctor. According to custom immemorial the answers MUST be Nescio. The following is a translated specimen:
net gen
Ten shillings, or half a sovereign.
net nevis gen
Seventeen shillings.
net roaf gen
Fourteen shillings. It will be seen by the foregoing that the reckoning is more by tens than by "teens." This is, however, matter of choice, and any one wishing to be considered accomplished in this description of slang, must do as he thinks best—must lead and not be led.
nettled
Teized, provoked, out of temper. He or she has pissed on a nettle; said of one who is peevish or out of temper.
nevis stretch
Seven years’ penal servitude.
new college students
Golden scholars, silver bachelors, and leaden masters.
new dictionary
Of the Terms, Ancient and Modern, of the Canting Crew in its several tribes of Gypsies, Beggars, Thieves, Cheats, &c., with an addition of some Proverbs, Phrases, Figurative Speeches, &c., by B. E., GENT., 12mo. N. D. [1710.]
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 fringe
Or FRILL, the collar of beard worn under the chin; so called from its occupying the position of the rope when Jack Ketch operates. Another name for it is a TYBURN COLLAR.
newgate solicitor
A petty fogging and roguish attorney, who attends the gaols to assist villains in evading justice.
newmarket
In tossing, when the game is "two out of three," that is, when he who gains the first two tosses wins. When the first toss is decisive, the game is termed "sudden death."
nib-cove
A gentleman. NIBSOMEST CRIBS, best or gentlemen’s houses.—Beggar’s Cant.
nibble
To take, or steal. NIBBLER, a petty thief.
nibs
Self. His NIBS, means any one who may be referred to. As, "I told his NIBS," or "stag his NIBS." "Your NIBS," yourself.
nick
Old nick; the Devil.
nick
Or OLD NICK, the devil.—Scandinavian, KNICKAR, one of the names of Odin, as the destroying or evil principle.
nick-nack
A trifle.—Originally Cant.
nicknacks
Toys, baubles, or curiosities.
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.
nig
The clippings of money. Nigging; clipping. Nigler, a clipper. Cant.
niggling
Cutting awkwardly, trifling; also accompanying with a woman.
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