nump

English

Noun

nump (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of numps
   • 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act II, signature [D4], recto:

     Fare-well my prettie Nump, I am verie sorrie / I cannot beare thee companie.

   • 1861 October, Mrs. S. E. Daes, “The Tory Spy. A Story of the Revolution”, in Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume XIV, Boston, page 356, column 1:

     I guess I will go, by hokey—there, Miss Ruth, I forgot I promised you I wouldn't say that ere word again, but it seems as though I couldn't keep from sayin' big words, when I hear what that nump of a Barlett has been doin'.

   • 1954, Alan LeMay, The Searchers, New York: Jove, →ISBN, page 109:

     "There's plenty others. Like—like Zack Harper. Such a nice clean boy—"
     "That nump!