verb. (old).—1. To fondle; to grabble; and (2) TO SWIVE (q.v.). Whence MY NUG = ‘My dear’: a general endearment. Cf. NUGGING DRESS and NUGGING HOUSE.—B. E. (c. 1696); A New Canting Dictionary (1725); GROSE (1785); MATSELL (1859).
verb. (old).—1. To fondle; to grabble; and (2) TO SWIVE (q.v.). Whence MY NUG = ‘My dear’: a general endearment. Cf. NUGGING DRESS and NUGGING HOUSE.—B. E. (c. 1696); A New Canting Dictionary (1725); GROSE (1785); MATSELL (1859).
