nommus

English

Verb

nommus (third-person singular simple present nommuses, present participle nommusing, simple past and past participle nommused)

1. Alternative spelling of namous
   • 1857, James Ewing Ritchie, “The Costermongers' Free-And-Easy”, in The Night Side of London‎^[1], page 193:

     Master Whelkey will answer perhaps, "But kool the esilop (look at the police), kool him (look at him). Curly: Nommus (be off), I am going to do the tightner" (have my dinner).

   • 1866 March 3, “London Revelations”, in The London Miscellany‎^[2], number 4, page 57, column 3:

     One said bitterly he never knew the trade like it was lately. It was a regular trosseno (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon nommus (cut it), for there was not no sort of living to be had now-a-days on the cross (by thieving).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:namous.

Interjection

nommus!

1. Alternative spelling of namous

Anagrams

• musmon, summon