A man goes into a pet shop to buy a parrot.
The shop owner points to three identically looking parrots on a perch and says:
"The parrot on the left costs $500."
"Why does the parrot cost so much?", asks the guest.
The owner says,
"Well, the parrot knows how to use a computer."
The man then asks about the next parrot. He is told that this one costs $1000, because it can do everything the other parrot can do, plus it knows how to use the UNIX operating system.
Naturally, the increasingly startled man asks about the third parrot. He is told that it costs $2000. Needless to say this begs the question,
"What can it do?"
To which the owner replies,
"To be honest I have never seen it do a thing, but the other two call him boss!"
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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A dog"s sense of smell is one of the keenest in nature. If a pot of stew was cooking on a stove, a human would smell the stew, while the dog could smell the beef, carrots, peas, potatoes, spices, and all the other individual ingredients in the stew.