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Definition of Nimming
1. nim [v] - See also: nim
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nimming
Literary usage of Nimming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"Itm for a nimming sheet and rugg lent unto the Steward Robert Ring for the
undertakers use 280 Itm for a cabbin bought in the ship because I had not ..."
2. Transactions and Collections by American Antiquarian Society (1885)
"... for a nimming sheet and rugg lent unto the Steward Robert Ring for the
undertakers use 280 Itm for a cabbin bought in the ship because I had not ..."
3. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1914)
"He that picks the pocket is called a Foist: Dekker, Belman of London (Bullen).
4 nimming, jilting; obscure expressions from jargon of English thieves. ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"That pinch the countryman With nimming of a fee. 1606. JOHN DAY, lie of Guls,
Hi., p. 67. As I led him lo his Chamber I MMDE his Chayne and drew his Purse, ..."
5. England Under Seven Administrations by Albany Fonblanque (1837)
"The nimming Lay," according to Fielding, is that »rt which, practised in Parliament,
is called jobbing, and in the Trivia, thieving. ..."
6. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
""The old lady goes nimming along," moves with agility. NIMM'D UP, taken up hastily
on the sly, stolen, snatched. NINNY-COCKS, young lobsters NIP-RAISIN, ..."
7. The Plays of Philip Massinger: In Four Volumes by Philip Massinger (1813)
"I am not good at nimming ;* And yet that shall not hinder us : by your leave, sir;
... am not good at nimming ;] ie at stealing. The word is.pure Saxon, ..."
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