"Nn" in Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English . The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume. With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more. The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for. | Nn n conjunction and. An abbreviation notably since 1955 in rock N ROLL US 1858 NAAFI Naafi noun a military organisation that operates shops and canteens for military personnel any shop or canteen within that organisation. Acronym of Navy Army and Air Force Institutes uk 1921 naavo noun a secret hiding place Ireland 1999 nab noun the police a police officer uk 1813 nab verb 1 to catch to arrest uk 1686. 2 to snatch or steal something UK 1665 nabber noun a police officer us 1837 nabe noun 1 a neighbourhood cinema us 1935. 2 a tavern us 5 naches nakhes noun proud pleasure. Yiddish from the Hebrew for contentment us 1968 nack noun in the nack naked uk 2002 nada noun nothing none. From the Spanish used by English speakers who do not understand Spanish often heard in the 1980s advertising phrase Nothing - nada - zilch . Recorded in UK gay currency us 1914 nad alert gonad alert noun used as a warning in a hospitalthat an x-ray is about to be taken us 1994 nada to vada in the larder refering to a man s genitals less than averagely endowed. Polari a clever combination of nada nothing and vada to see with a conventionallocation where meat is stored uk 2002 nadger noun in horse racing a horse s nose or head Australia 1989 nadgers noun the testicles. Possibly deriving from gonads and with a similarity to knackers nadgers was an all-purpose nonsense word used by the radio comedy series The Goon Show during the 1950s UK 1998 nads noun the testicles. From gonads us 1964 naff adjective vulgar bad unlovely despicable generally contemptible when used in gay society it may mean heterosexual. Theatricaland camp origins but the actual derivation is disputed possibly an acronym for not available for fucking not a fuck or normalas fuck or a play on the military acronym NAAFI Navy Army and Air Force Institutes as no ambition and fuck-all interest otherwise it may originate as back slang for fanny the vagina or the buttocks a shortening of nawfuckingood or in the French phrase rien a .
