首页 › A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. › 第 182 题 NIGGLING, trifling, or idling; taking short steps in walking.—_North._ NIL, half; half profits, &c.
NILLY-WILLY, _i.e._, _Nill ye, will ye_, whether you will or no, a
familiar version of the _Latin_, NOLENS VOLENS.
NIMMING, stealing. Immediately from the _German_, NEHMEN. Motherwell,
the Scotch poet, thought the old word NIM (to snatch or pick up) was
derived from _nam_, _nam_, the tiny words or cries of an infant, when
eating anything which pleases its little palate. A negro proverb has
the word:—
“Buckra man _nam_ crab,
Crab _nam_ buckra man.”
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