or namase, nommus, namous, verb. (thieves’).—See quots., and SKEDADDLE.
1857. J. E. RITCHIE, The Night Side of London, p. 193. NOMMUS (be off), I am going to do the tightner.
1859. G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v.
1866. The London Miscellany, 3 March, p. 57, 3, ‘London Revelations.’ It was a regular trosseno (bad one). If it went on that always, he said, he should precious soon NOMMUS (cut it).
