MUFF, an epithet synonymous with mouth.
MUG, the face; a queer mug is an ugly face.
MURPHY’s COUNTENANCE, a pig’s face.
MYNABS, me, myself.
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NAIL, to nail a person, is to over-reach, or take advantage of him in the course of trade or traffic; also, to rob, or steal; as, I nail’d him for (or of) his reader, I robbed him of his pocket-book; I nail’d the swell’s montra in the push, I picked the gentleman’s pocket of his watch in the crowd, &c. A person of an over-reaching, imposing disposition, is called a nail, a dead nail, a nailing rascal, a rank needle, or a needle pointer.
NANCY, the posteriors.
NAP the BIB, to cry; as, the mollisher nap’d her bib, the woman fell a crying.
NASH, to go away from, or quit, any place or company; speaking of a person who is gone, they say, he is nash’d, or Mr. Nash is concerned.