numberwang
A situation involving a bewildering succession of numbers.
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numbnuts
A slow-witted, unresponsive, or inept person (usually male).
numbwit
A fool; a stupid person.
nun
A prostitute.
nunnery
Synonym of brothel.
nut dash
Synonym of en dash.
nut huggers
Men's swimming briefs, tight-fitting jeans or similar, especially tight, lower-body garments.
nut out
To become crazy, especially with rage.
nut up
To show courage and hide one's apprehension.
nutbag
The scrotum.
nutbaggery
eccentricity; craziness
nutballs
Crazy, insane, unhinged.
nutbar
Crazy, eccentric.
nutburger
A person considered crazy or eccentric.
nutcase
Someone who is insane.
nuthugger
Briefs or other type of undergarment designed with a minimal amount of fabric in the front center crotch pouch.
nutjobbery
The behaviour of a nutjob; lunacy or idiocy.
nutless
Without nuts (testicles); cowardly or castrated.
NuTrek
The films and television series in the Star Trek franchise from 2009 onward.
nutrider
A person whose force of argument derives from the notoriety or skill of some group or person they are associated with.
nuts
The testicles.
nutsack
The scrotum.
nutshot
To hit in the testicles.
nutsucker
Term of abuse.
nuttier than squirrel poop
Very nutty; crazy.
nuttier than squirrel shit
Very nutty; crazy.
nutting
Thinking very hard or puzzling over something.
nutty
Barmy: eccentric, odd; crazy, mad, insane.
nutty as a fruitcake
Behaving in an eccentric, foolish, or kooky manner; very nutty.
nutzoid
Crazy; insane.
NuWho
A revival of the Doctor Who universe, launched in 2005, after cancellation of the previous series in 1989.
nuzlocke
A self-imposed challenge where the player can only catch the first wild Pokémon encountered in each area, and any caught Pokémon that faints cannot be used again.
nya
The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.
nyah
meow, especially spoken by a catgirl or catboy
nü
New, especially used of remakes seen as a travesty or pale imitation of the original.
N or M
The answer given to the first question in the Church of England Catechism; and it means that here the person being catechized gives his or her name or names. Lat. nomen vel nomina. The abbreviation for the plural nomina was — as usual — the doubled initial (cp. "LL.D." for Doctor of Laws); and this, when printed (as it was in old Prayer Books) m black-letter and close together, $$. came to be taken for fK.
n. c
"enough said," being the initials of NUF CED. A certain theatrical manager spells, it is said, in this style.
na-na
The vulva.
na-na na-na boo-boo
a childish taunt to annoy or tease someone
nab
To catch, to seize; "NAB the rust," to take offence.—Ancient, fourteenth century. See NAP.
nabob
An Eastern prince, a retired Indian official,—hence a slang term for a capitalist. From Nawaub.
nabs
Self; my NABS, myself; his NABS, himself.—North Country Cant.
nack
To have a nack; to be ready at any thing, to have a turn-for it.
nade
A grenade.
nag
To persistently talk in a scolding manner, after the manner of Mrs. Caudle. NAGGING is supposed to be persistent, persevering, passionless scolding.
Nag's Head Consecration
On the passing of the second Act of Uniformity in Queen Elizabeth's reign (1559), fourteen bishops vacated their sees, and all the other sees, except Llandaff, were at the time vacant.
nah
No.
nail
To catch.
nail
To steal, or capture; "paid on the NAIL," i.e., paid ready money; NAILED, taken up, or caught,—probably in allusion to the practice of NAILING bad money to the counter. We say, "as dead as a door-NAIL;" most possibly because of "apt alliteration." Shakspeare has the expression in Henry IV.—
nail down
to firmly establish or settle something
nail the hammer on the head
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
nailed
Secured, fixed. He offered me a decus, and I nailed him; he offered me a crown, and I struck or fixed him.
naked ape
A human being, emphasizing their primitive or animalistic nature
nam esclop
A policeman. See ESCLOP.
namby-pamby
Particular, over-nice, effeminate. This was possibly of Pope’s invention, and first applied by him to the affected short-lined verses addressed by Ambrose Phillips to Lord Carteret’s infant children. See Johnson’s Life of Pope.
name and address
Personal details used to identify someone
name and number
Full identification of someone
name and shame
Publicly expose and criticize someone for wrongdoing
name it and claim it
To publicly declare something as one's own in order to possess or achieve it
name names
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.