Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuffs
Literary usage of Nuffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"As to the nuffs, the los? of SOYER will not be so severely felt, PS most of the
puffs he was eo famous for manufacturing were for bis own use. ..."
2. Miscellanies (second Series) by Austin Dobson (1901)
"... prim portraits on the wall, the great brass-clamped coffers and carved armoires
for the nuffs and starched collars and stiff farthingales of the women. ..."
3. The Principles of English Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most by Peter Bullions (1850)
"... •nuffs; except stuff, which has sometimes staves; so wharf, wharves. EXERCISES ON
NUMBER. Give the plural, and the rule for forming it, of-—Fox, hook, ..."
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