nammus

English[edit]

nammus (third-person singular simple present nammuses, present participle nammusing, simple past and past participle nammused)

Alternative spelling of namous
- 1841, Henry Downes Miles, chapter XXXIX, in Dick Turpin‎^[1], 4th edition, London: William Mark Clark, published 1845, page 267:
  None of us know'd then—though the grabbing at Nan Turner's came off that very night—as Polly was the cause o' that 'ere, till it vos blown here at the Gate by some of the coves. Vell, she nammused, as you may guess, but fust poor old Madge Rhodes got a chive in her breather from Black Gil.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:namous.

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