nigmenog n.
a fool, an idiot.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Nigmenog a very silly Fellow. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
Andrew Jackson 70: Do you take his part you skipe, you nigmenog. | ||
Vocabulum 59: nimenog A very silly fellow. | ||
Cornishman 27 July 6/2: Nick-nimmy [sic], nigmanog [...] are all synonyous, in the language of the canting crew, for fool. |