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naffle, nafflin'    -   to trifle, do small jobs

Nappatanzer    -     a comic term of depreciation applied to an                              animal or person 

napper    -     to patter with one's feet 

napper-kneed    -      knock kneed 

naps     -      lavender

nazzy     -      irritable, peevish and cross-tempered 

Neddy       -     a donkey 

neezle      -      v. to snuggle

nesh     -    soft, effeminate (Anglo Saxon word hnesc = soft)

*"never no more"    -     never again

nib    -    a projecting piece on a piece of wood, when it has                   been partially sawn and then split 

nick    -     to steal "Nick it, nack it, find it, tak it" 

niggedy-naggety    -     nasty-tempered 

niggle    -    a jogging trot, "We wenten at a bit of a                                   niggle"

ninny-neeno     -     a musical instrument made by blowing                                    through folded leaves of certain plants,                                  which are around a comb. Like a paper and                              comb whistle. 

*nip    -    to go quickly 

nipper    -    a young person, and specifically a waggoner's                        lad 

nizzly    -     drizzly - see mizzle

nobble    -   to beat 

*nobbut   -       nothing but - "You'll have nobbut a moog                                  o'lobscouse for supper"

noggin    -    a wooden vessel for supping from(see piggin)

noggintle      -    a nogginful (see piggintle)

Noddy(Tom Noddy)    -    a silly fellow

noggen, noggen-yedded    -     a bungler, blockhead 

nog, noggy    -     a child's word for a clog 

nogging    -    wattle & daub

nointer    -    a mischievous lad 

nominy   -     rigmarole, to do 

nongle    -    to nod 

noodlin'    -     awkward, stupid

nook      -      (1) the ingle or chimney corner in old-fashioned                       open fireplaces (2) a portion, quantity "A good                         'nook' of the money was gone" 

nookshotten     -     shot into a corner, discarded. Usually                                   used for cheese put aside as being inferior 

"noo danger"     -     "no fear" - no chance of something                                          happening

norry      -     muscular, sturdy "I never seid sich a norry                             youth" (This probably comes from the French                           word nourri = well nourished) 

nose   -     the blossom on the ends of ripe gooseberries or                     currants 

nose-hole   -    nostril 

noss-chilt     -    a nurse child, a child put out to nurse

nossro    -   a shrew mouse. So called because of its long                         nose 

noss-wench     -     a nursery maid 

nottins      -      wheat which refuses to be separated from the                         husks in threshing 

nowt     -   a good-for-nothing, vicious or disreputable                             person

nud    -     to nod with the head 

*nuddle off     -    to go away 

nudge     -       gnat 

nuncle   -   an uncle

nunkut    -     awkward, clumsy (Anglo Saxon uncud =                                 uncouth) 

nur     -    "Hey's a reight-dain nur of a fellow" a hard-working                    man 

*nut     -      the head 

nuzzle    -    to poke the nose into

nuzzler     -     a mouse's nest caught up in the teeth of a                               mowing machine.