How long have you saved that old lace yoke—waiting for something to put it on. Throw it away! It’s a nodge. (See Gefoojet.)
I took my aunt to see the town,
A task I couldn’t dodge;
At every cabaret she’d frown,
She was a perfect nodge.
But when, to visit her, I went
To Pudding Centre, Mass.,
She took me to a gospel tent,
I was a nodge, alas!
Nul´kin, n. 1. The core or inside history of any occurrence. A true, but secret explanation. 2. Facts known, but not told.
The “nigger-in-the-woodpile” was named Mr. Nulkin.
The object of a trial by jury is to find the nulkin of the crime.
Why were they divorced? What does she see in him? Nobody knows the nulkin. It is the skeleton in the closet.
The nulkin is the true motive. Cherchez la nulkin.
The diplomatic service is full of nulkins.
Why didn’t we go to war with Mexico? Did we fear Japan? What is the nulkin?