MUSS. A quarrel; a row.
MY UNCLE. A pawnbroker.
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NABBED. Arrested.
NABCHEAT. A hat.
NABGIRDER. A bridle.
NABS. Coxcombs.
NACKY. Ingenious.
NAIDER. Nothing; can't have it.
NAILED. Fixed; secured; taken; arrested.
NAMASED. Ran away; got out of sight; ran.
NAP. To cheat.
NAPPER. A cheat; a thief; the head.
NARP. A shirt.
NARY. Not. "I frisked the joskin's sacks, but nary red was there," I
searched the countryman's pockets, but not a cent was there.
NASK. A prison.
NATTY KIDS. Young thieves; smart, well-dressed youngsters.
NATURAL. Not fastidious; a liberal, clever fellow. "The bloke is very
natural," the fellow is very liberal.
NAZY. Drunken.
NAZY COVES. Drunken fellows.
NAZY NOBS. Drunken coxcombs or fops.
NEB. The face.
NECKWEED. Hemp.
NED. A ten-dollar gold piece.
NEDDY. A slung-shot.
NEGLIGEE. A woman with nothing on but her shift.
NEMAN. Stealing.
NERVE. Courage; endurance; staunch.
NESCIO. No; I know not; can't say.
NETTLED. Diseased.
NEW LIGHT. New coin; new money.
NIB. The mouth.
NICK. To cut. "The knuck nicked the bloke's kicks into the bottom of his
poke, and the dummy fell into his mauley," the pickpocket cut through
the man's pants into the bottom of his pocket, when the pocket-book
dropped into his hand. This mode of stealing is only practised by the
artists of the fraternity.