Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Aminadab n.

a Quaker.

1620		J. Taylor ‘Praise of Hemp-Seed’ in Works (1869) III 70: And good Aminadab, I pray attend.
1699		N. Ward London Spy IV 75: My Friend recollected a little Sanctified Aminidab in Finch-Lane.
1700		T. Brown Amusements Serious and Comical in Works (1744) III 140: The next we encounter’d was a Quaker, and his handmaid, with whom our merry pilot began his drollery, viz. Well done, holy ones, I see Aminadab will have his Abigail.
1705–07		N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I:12 3: When quaint Aminadab had done / What better he had ne’er begun.
1731		Newcastle Courant 13 Nov. 2/2: Conference between Aminadab and Bowman.
1773		O. Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Act I: Jack Slang the horse doctor, Little Aminadab that grinds the music box.
1785		Sussex Advertiser 11 July 4/1: Aminadab to William Pitt. ‘Verily unto thee I say [etc’.
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1796		Sporting Mag. Dec. IX 124/1: The man of orders was anxiously desirous to know if the horse had any and what faults, when his chapman Aminadab, candidly answered, he knew of no more than three.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1861		Derry Jrnl 23 Oct. 4/3: ‘You sneak! you irreligious infidel! you Black Republican! you Aminadab!’.
1864, 1867, 1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1906		Sun. Times (Perth) 9 Dec. 4/7: ’Tis the moaning of Minadab Sleek— / How well I recall his intoning.