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ˈnubbing-cheat Cant.
[f. nubbing nub v.2 + cheat n.1 3.]
The gallows. Now only arch.
1673R. Head Cant. Acad. 94 They are..sent to the Nubbing cheat. 1745Fielding Tom Jones viii. xii, ‘I will shew you a way to empty the pocket of a queer cull, without any danger of the nubbing cheat.’ ‘Nubbing cheat,’ cries Partridge, ‘Pray, Sir, what is that?’ ‘Why that, Sir,’ says the stranger, ‘is a cant-phrase for the gallows.’ 1826Scott Woodst. xxxvi, We trine to the nubbing cheat to-morrow. 1834Ainsworth Rookwood (1864) 313, I fear Dick will scarce cheat the Nubbing-cheat this go. 1902Blackw. Mag. May 704/2 They pay the last debt at the nubbing-cheat.
So † ˈnubbing-cove, the hangman; † ˈnubbing-ken, ‘the Sessions-house’.
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