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Number Nip

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The gnome king of the Giant Mountains. (Musæus: Popular Tales.)

“She was like one of those portly dowagers in Number Nip’s society of metamorphose and turnips.”—Le Fanu: The House in the Churchyard, p. 132.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Now-now
Nowheres
Noyades
Nucta
Nude
Nugget of Gold
Nulla Linea
Nulli Secundus Club
Numa
Numancia
Number Nip
Number One
Number of the Beast
Numbers (from 1 to 13)
Numbers
Numbers
Numbers
Numbers
Numerals
Numero
Numidicus