A policeman spots a woman driving and knitting at the same time. Driving up beside her, he shouts out the window...
"Pull over!"
"No," she shouts back, "a pair of socks!"
n. his nibs joc. Colloq. Mock title used with reference to an important or self-important person. [origin unknown]
NICE
adj. - pleasant, satisfactory.
- (of a person) kind, good-natured.
- iron. Bad or awkward (nice mess).
- fine or subtle (nice distinction).
- fastidious; delicately sensitive.
- (foll. By an adj., often with and) satisfactory in terms of the quality described (a nice long time; nice and warm). nicely adv. Niceness n. Nicish adj. (also niceish). [originally = foolish, from latin nescius ignorant]
NICK
—n. - small cut or notch.
- slang a prison. B police station.
- colloq. Condition (in good nick). —v. - make a nick or nicks in.
- slang a steal. B arrest, catch. in the nick of time only just in time. [origin uncertain]
NIFF
n. & v. Colloq. Smell, stink. niffy adj. (-ier, -iest). [originally a dial. Word]
NIGH
adv., prep., & adj. Archaic or dial. Near. [old english]
NINE
adj. & n. - one more than eight.
- symbol for this (9, ix, ix).
- size etc. Denoted by nine. [old english]
- days' wonder n. Person or thing that is briefly famous.
NODE
n. - a part of a plant stem from which leaves emerge. B knob on a root or branch.
- natural swelling.
- either of two points at which a planet's orbit intersects the plane of the ecliptic or the celestial equator.
- point of minimum disturbance in a standing wave system.
- point at which a curve intersects itself.
- component in a computer network. nodal adj. [latin nodus knot]
NOEL
n. Christmas. [latin: related to *natal]
NONE
—pron. - (foll. By of) a not any of (none of this concerns me; none of them have found it). B not any one of (none of them has come).
- a no persons (none but fools believe it). B no person (none but a fool believes it).
- (usu. With the preceding noun implied) not any (you have money and i have none). —adv. (foll. By the + compar., or so, too) by no amount; not at all (am none the wiser). [old english, = not one]
NONU
adj. Colloq. Not characteristic of the upper class. [from *u2]
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