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nunky (ˈnʌŋkɪ) Also nunkie. 1. Familiar form of nuncle. Cf. nunc, nunk, nunks.1798 C. Smith Yng. Philos. I. 101, I only repeat what I have heard, that old nunky looks upon you as still belonging to him. 1815 Zeluca III. 232 Nunky pays for all. 1840 Hood Up Rhine 4 When the qualm is over,..Nunky, Nev...
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nunks
nunc, nunk, nunks familiar forms of nuncle. Cf nunky.1841 Comic Almanack Dec. 48 Come, nunks, one game at Blindman's-buff. 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. ii. xvi. 311 His uncle or ‘Nunc’, as Sir Hugo had taught him to say. 1884 C. M. Yonge Armourer's Prentices I. 142 Should you know this nunks of your...
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nuncle
nuncle variant of uncle with transferred n (see N 3 b). Now dial. (Cf. nunky and nunc, nunk, nunks.)c 1589 Theses Martinianæ 2 To my nunckle Canturburie. 1599 Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 132, I should be glad To haue myselfe called nunckle, and thou dad. 1605 Shakes. Lear i. iv. 170 Nuncl...
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nevvy
nevvy, nevy colloq. abbrevs. of nephew.1847 Dickens Dombey (1848) xv. 149 ‘He might die a little sooner for the loss of—’ ‘Of his Nevy,’ interposed the Captain. 1903 Wodehouse Tales of St. Austin's 138 Yes, prarper good runner, his nevvy. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 133 Nunky and nevvy, uncl...
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nephew
nephew (ˈnɛvjuː, ˈnɛfjuː) Forms: α. 3–5 neueu(e, 3–6 neuew; 4–6 nevewe, 4, 6 neveu, (4 -oeu, 5 -ue); 4 neweu, (5 -ewe); 5 nepveu, -vew, 6 -evewe, -heu(e, -hue; neffewe, -ue; 5– nephew, (7 neiphew). β. 4 neuu, -ou, -ow; 4–6 nevow, (4 -ou, 5 -oue). γ. 4–9 Sc. nevo, 5 neuo, newo, nepho, 6 nepuo. δ. 4– ...
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dib
▪ I. dib, n.1 dial. [A variant of dip n.: cf. dib v.1] A dip; a small hollow in the ground.1847–78 Halliwell, Dib, a valley. North. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Dib, a dip. 1876 F. K. Robinson Whitby Gloss., Dib, a slight concavity on the ground's surface. 2. Comb. dibboard, the dip or inclination of a sea...
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towel
▪ I. towel, n. (ˈtaʊəl) Forms: see below. [ME. towaille, -aile, etc., a. OF. toaille (Wace 12th c.), toaile, mod.F. touaille = Pr. toalha, Cat. tovalla, Sp. toalla, Pg. toalha, It. tovaglia (whence F., in spec. sense, tavaïolle); in med.L. toacula, toailla, tovalia, toualia, etc., from the mod. lang...
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