1879 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 28 May 340/1 Is there any liquid suitable for amateurs for silver-plating articles that have become yellow from wear?—Anthony Nignog.]

1953 Punch 9 Dec. 692/3 All must be represented on a strict basis of proportion of the number of citizens for whom they cater: Football-pool promoters (six representatives)..erks, nig-nogs, [etc.].

1962 A. Wesker Chips with Everything i. iii. 17 A straight line, you heaving nig-nogs, a straight line.

1967 Times 30 Nov. 10/8 ‘Nig-nog’ was used on the railways and elsewhere long before coloured immigrants appeared... It is usually taken as a mildly contemptuous but good-humoured name for an unskilled man or novice.

1986 T. Royle Best Years ii. 54 Petty Officers vied for the chance to make a ‘nig-nog’ (raw recruit) call the bows the sharp end.

2008 K. Milton Trav. Nig Nog (e-book, accessed 22 Mar. 2018) ii. 21 Every drill sergeant likes his scapegoat... ‘You are a Nig Nog soldier, what are you?’ an your answer had to be the self-effacing ‘A Nig Nog, Sergeant.’ Nig Nog was the expression of the day for a pretty awful untrained soldier.

1959 M. Pugh Chancer 85 First lot, and look lively. Lot of nig-nogs off the trees.

1971 J. Gardner Every Night's Bullfight xiii. 405 I'm talking about you and your precious Juliet, your beloved Carol bloody Evans that nig-nog tart.

1974 Times 14 Feb. 16/8 I'm not going to vote until they get me a house and get rid of the nignogs.

1989 M. Wiggins John Dollar (1990) i. 32 We had them in the Ganges I remember. Swam right up and rubbed against the nig-nogs at their baths.

1997 C. Shields Larry's Party 53 He rattles on about welfare bums, and sometimes refers to blacks as nig-nogs.

2005 Internat. Jrnl. Speech, Lang., & Law 12 No. 1. 15 Railway-engine drivers were accused of colour prejudice when they stated that they did not want the ‘nignog’ guards coming into the driver's cabin.