Lexicographical Neighbors of Nincom
Literary usage of Nincom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Graham's Magazine by George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe (1845)
"AND VERY LICENTIOUS IN HIS PROSE Two different mutes nincom muft inspire, A»
opposite u water is to fire ; In vene, one is a saint devout and civil, ..."
2. Law and Lawyers in Literature by Irving Browne (1882)
"Amidst this very sweet affair, Arrived a person very big, Yclept Sir nincom Periwig.
They made him judge, — to set the matter square. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"Take Army—no, take Leggy tailors Down to the Fleet, for no one but a nincom, Out
of our nation's narrow income, Would furnish such wide trousers to the ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"0 to you—incline ear close— Not nose, old nincom, now—right ear, I say— (And
prithee prick what sense hath seat inside)— As plain I mean to make as stau' of ..."
5. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"His behaviour is that of the most consummate nincom, that ever was led with an
apron-string. NINE. NINE TAILORS MAKE A MAN. See NINTH. NINE-BOB-SQUARE, adv. ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1849)
"We think the ' Herald ' is a blackguard for translating ' NP' in his name into '
nincom-Poop.' Wi have received several songs, marches, duetts, Donizettis, ..."
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