nommus

present singular third person nommuses · participle present nommusing · participle past nommused · past nommused

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of namous.

   Master Whelkey will answer perhaps, "But kool the esilop (look at the police), kool him (look at him). Curly: Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightner" (have my dinner).

   1857, James Ewing Ritchie, “The Costermongers' Free-And-Easy”, in The Night Side of London, page 193

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   One said bitterly he never knew the trade like it was lately. It was a regular trosseno (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon nommus (cut it), for there was not no sort of living to be had now-a-days on the cross (by thieving).

   1866 March 3, “London Revelations”, in The London Miscellany, number 4, page 57, column 3

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of namous.