Definitions

Name-Calling; Narratorial; Narratorily

Narrative; Ne Plus Ultra; Neoteric; Neuron Theory; Nisus; Nitpicking

Noisome; Non Sequitur; Nonce Words; None of Your Concern;

Nonesuch; Nonhereditary; Nonpareil; Not Getting What One Wants ...;

Not-Knowing Principle; Nullifidian; Nuptial; Nutter/ Nutty

Name-Calling:

name-calling (n.): insulting language; verbal abuse, esp as a crude form of argument. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Narratorial:

narratorial (adj.): pertaining to a narrator. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

Narratorily:

narratorly (adj.): in the style of a narrator. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

Narrative:

narrative (n.): an explanation or interpretation of events in accordance with a particular theory, ideology, or point of view; [e.g.]: “The competing narratives of Capitalism and Marxism”; (adv.): narratively. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Ne Plus Ultra:

ne plus ultra (n.): the highest point of excellence, acme; loosely translated from the Latin for “there is no reason to go further”, the phrase is a synonym of “zenith”; legend has it that “ne plus ultra” – in its literal sense – was inscribed on Gibraltar’s Pillars of Hercules as a warning to mariners not to venture, depending on the direction in which they were sailing, into the Atlantic Ocean or the Mediterranean Sea. ~ (Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price).

Neoteric:

neoteric (adj.): 1. new; recent in origin; modern; [e.g.]: “And neoteric astronomy hath found spots in the sun”; 2. (n.): a modern; [e.g.]: “;How much mistaken both the philosophers of old and later neotericshave been, their own ignorance make manifest”; (adv.): neoterically; (adj.): neoteristic, neoterical; (n.): neoterism (=innovation; specifically, the introduction of new words or phrases into a language; a word or phrase so introduced); (n.): neoterist (=one who invents new words or expressions; an innovator in language); (v.): neoterise, neoterised, neoterising (=to innovate; specifically, to coin new words or phrases). [from Late Latin neōtericus, ‘new’, ‘modern’, from Greek νεωτερικός (neōterikós), ‘youthful’, ‘natural to a youth’, from νεώτερος (neōteros), ‘younger’, ‘newer’, comparative of νέος (neos), ‘young’, ‘new’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia)

Neuron Theory:

neurone theory (Hist.): the theory (now universally accepted) that the nervous system is composed of distinct cells in effective contact with one another’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

Nisus:

nisus (n.): effort, endeavour; conatus {viz.: conatus: an effort, an attempt}. [NL., ‹ L. nisus, ‘effort’, ‹ niti, pp. nisus, nixus, ‘strive’]. [Curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Nitpicking:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• ‘nitpicking: minute, trivial, unnecessary, and unjustified criticism or faultfinding’. (American Heritage® Dictionary).

• ‘nitpicking: petty criticism; trivial, unnecessary, detailed, and often unjustified faultfinding’. (Encarta Dictionary).

• ‘nitpicking: giving too much attention to unimportant details, especially as a way of criticising’. (Cambridge Dictionary).

• ‘nitpicking: minute and usually unjustified criticism’. (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary).

• ‘nitpicking: quibbling over insignificant details; cavilling, carping’.(WordNet 2.0).

• ‘nitpick: criticise pedantically; find fault (with) in a petty manner; freq. as nitpicking’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Noisome:

noisome (adj.): 1. offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul; 2. harmful or dangerous; (usage note): sometimes noisome is assumed to mean “noisy”, because the two words sound similar, but in the 2011 survey conducted by the American Heritage Dictionary, eighty-nine percent of those surveyed found the sentence, “We could barely hear each other with the noisome helicopter overhead” to be unacceptable; if noisome is used as a synonym for “noisy” there is a good chance readers will take it to mean someone or something depicted is being offensive or harmful; (adv.): noisomely; (n.): noisomeness;

(synonyms): offensive, disgusting, loathsome, nasty, odious, repellent, repulsive, revolting, vile; these adjectives mean extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings; [e.g.]: “an offensive remark”; “their disgusting language”; “a loathsome disease”; “a nasty miasma”; “an odious sight”; “a repellent demand”; “their repulsive behaviour”; “such revolting food”; “those vile thoughts” ; see also hateful; viz.: (synonyms): hateful, detestable, odious, offensive, repellent; these often interchangeable adjectives describe what elicits or deserves strong dislike, distaste, or revulsion; hateful refers to what evokes hatred or deep animosity; [e.g.]: “No vice is universally so hateful as ingratitude”. (Joseph Priestley); detestable applies to what arouses abhorrence or scorn; [e.g.]: “those detestable crimes against humanity”; something odious is the object of intense displeasure or aversion; [e.g.]: “the odious practice of sending prisoners abroad to be tortured”. (Ronald Dworkin); offensive applies to what offends or insults; [e.g.]: “an offensive suggestion about the writer being guilty of plagiarism”; something repellent arouses repugnance or disgust; [e.g.]: “[The motion picture code] banned the portrayal of repellent subjects—the sale of women, surgical operations, cruelty to children and animals”. (Jeffrey Meyers). [Middle English noiesom; from noie, ‘harm’ (short for anoi, ‘annoyance’, from Old French, from anoier, ennuyer, ‘to annoy’, from Vulgar Latin *inodiāre, ‘to make odious’, from Latin in odiō, ‘odious’; from in, ‘in’ + odiō, ablative of odium, ‘hatred’) + -som, adjectival suffix, from Middle English -som, from Old English -sum, ‘tending to’, ‘-like’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Non Sequitur:

non sequitur: an inference or conclusion not logically following from the premises; a response, remark, etc., not logically following from what has gone before. (Oxford Dictionary).

non seq. (n.): an abbreviation of Latin non sequitur; in law or logic, an inference or a conclusion which does not follow from the premises. [Latin, ‘it does not follow’; from: non, ‘not’; sequitur, 3rd person. singular present indicative of sequi, ‘follow’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Nonce Words:

nonce word (n.): a word occurring, invented, or used just for a particular occasion. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

None of Your Concern:

none of your concern: business, affair, responsibility, charge, duty, job, task, occupation (...). ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

Nonesuch:

nonesuch (n.): a person or thing so excellent as to have no equal or match; (synonyms): nonpareil, paragon, phoenix. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Nonhereditary:

nonhereditary (adj.): not hereditary; not able to be passed through the genes from a biological parent to offspring. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Nonpareil:

nonpareil (adj.): having no equal; peerless; (n.): a person or thing which has no equal; a paragon. [Middle English nounparalle, from Old French nonpareil, from non- + pareil, ‘equal’, from Vulgar Latin *pariculus, diminutive of Latin pār, ‘equal’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• nonpareil (n.): a person or thing which is unsurpassed or unmatched; peerless example; (adj.): having no match or equal; peerless. [C15: from French, from non- + pareil, ‘same’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• nonpareil (adj.): having no equal; peerless; (n.): a person or thing having no equal. [1400-50; from Middle French nonpareil, from non- + pareil, ‘equal’, from Latin pari-, singular of pār, ‘equal’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• nonpareil (n.): model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal; (synonyms): nonesuch, nonsuch, apotheosis, ideal, paragon, saint; [e.g.]: “the team’s nonpareil centre fielder”; one and only, peerless, unmatchable, matchless, unrivalled, unmatched, one; [e.g.]: “the one and only world champion”; “a peerless scholar”; “wrote with unmatchable clarity”; “infamy unmatched in the Western world”; “matchless beauty”; “unrivalled mastery of her art”; “she’s one in a million”; (adj.): eminent beyond or above comparison; (synonyms): incomparable, uncomparable (such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features which can be compared); [e.g.]: “an incomparable week of rest and pleasure”; “the computer proceeds with its incomparable efficiency”; “this report is incomparable with the earlier ones because of different breakdowns of the data”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• nonpareil (n.): 1. ideal, best, finest, perfection, paragon, ne plus ultra; [e.g.]: “In league, if not international football, he remains the nonpareil”; (adj.): unequalled, supreme, unique, unparalleled, unrivalled, incomparable, unmatched, peerless, unsurpassed, matchless; [e.g.]: “He is the nonpareil popular vocalist”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

• nonpareil (adj.): without equal or rival; (synonyms): alone, incomparable, matchless, only, peerless, singular, unequalled, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivalled; (n.): a person or thing so excellent as to have no equal or match; (synonyms): nonesuch, paragon, phoenix. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Not Getting What One Wants/ Getting What One Wants:

• [Mr. Oscar Wilde]: ‘In this world there are only two tragedies.

One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy!’ (from ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’).

Not-Knowing Principle:

‘Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know’.

For more on this topic see:

Nullifidian:

nullifidian (noun): a person having no faith or religion, an atheist; (adjective): having no faith or belief’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

Nuptial:

nuptial: zool. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of mating or the breeding season; esp. designating characteristic breeding coloration or behaviour’. (Oxford Dictionary).

nuptial (adj.): 1. of or relating to marriage or the wedding ceremony; 2. of, relating to, or occurring during the mating season; [e.g.]: “the nuptial plumage of male birds”; (n.): often *nuptials*, a wedding ceremony; (adv.): nuptially. [Middle English nupcialle, from Old French nuptial, from Latin nūptiālis, from nūptiae, ‘wedding’, from nūpta, feminine past participle of nūbere, ‘to take a husband’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Nutter/ Nutty:

• nutter (n.): 1. (offensive slang): a derogatory term for someone who is insane or psychotic; [e.g.]: “Some nutter went rambling through the mall this morning, screaming incomprehensibly at anyone who went near him”; “My step-father threatened to have me locked away with the other nutters”; 2. (slang): an eccentric, wild, or wacky person; [e.g.]: “My friend Jake is a total nutter, always pulling the most insane and reckless stunts”; “My whole family thinks I’m a bit of a nutter because I practice holistic medicine”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

• nutter (n.): a nutty person; [e.g.]: “That guy is a real nutter. Thinks he can get a cab at this hour”. ~ (McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions).

• nutjob (n.): 1. (offensive slang): a derogatory term for someone who is insane or psychotic; [e.g.]: “When you reach a certain level of celebrity, the occasional nutjob will inevitably start stalking you ”; 2. (slang): an eccentric, wild, or unorthodox person; [e.g.]: “You’re such a nutjob, Tim—I can’t believe you ate the entire thing by yourself!” ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

• nuttery (old-fashioned; slang): a derogatory and offensive term for a psychiatric hospital or insane asylum; a play on the slang term “nuts”, meaning ‘crazy’, in conjunction with the actual meaning of “nuttery” (=‘a copse of nut-bearing trees’); [e.g.]: “My great aunt Lydia apparently got locked up in a nuttery when she was a teenager because she said she could commune with ghosts”; “I can’t go to the police about it! They’d throw me in the nuttery if I came to them with such an unbelievable story”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

• nuttery (n.): an insane asylum; the place where nuts are kept; [e.g.]: “If you keep acting so odd, we’ll have to put you in a nuttery”; see also nut; (viz.: an odd or strange person; a crazy person; [e.g.]: “Some nut is going to try to fly from the top of one building to another”). ~ (McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions).

• be off one’s nut (slang): to be crazy or eccentric; usually used humorously; [e.g.]: “Don’t listen to a word he says, he’s off his nut!”; “You’re off your nut if you think that plan will work”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

• off one’s nut (slang): crazy or insane; [e.g.]: “I think you’re off your nut for changing careers this late in life, but, hey, follow your dreams”; “He’s off his nut if he thinks he can get that engine fixed by this weekend”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

• off your nut (informal): out of your mind; crazy. ~ (Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary).

• off your nut (informal; spoken): crazy; [e.g.]: “Is he completely off his nut?”. [nut is an informal word for a person’s head]. ~ (Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary).

• nutcake (n.): a stupid person; [e.g.]: “Stop acting like such a nutcake all the time”; see also fruitcake. ~ (McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions).

• nutty as a fruitcake, or, nuttier than a fruitcake; also: as nutty as a fruitcake (n.): crazy; [e.g.]: “Don’t pay any attention to John; he’s nutty as a fruitcake”; “Mary’s schemes for making money are nuttier than a fruitcake”. ~ (McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions).

• nuttier than a fruitcake (n.): crazy or wacky; usually used humorously; [e.g.]: “The kids are always nuttier than fruitcakes when they’ve had something sugary to eat”; “My Aunt Lydia has always been nuttier than a fruitcake”. ~ (Farlex Dictionary of Idioms).

• nutty as a fruitcake (n.): crazy, idiotic, as in; [e.g.]: “She’s nutty as a fruitcake if she thinks she can get away with that”; the adjective nutty meaning “insane” was first recorded in 1821; the similarity to fruitcake, which literally contains nuts as well as fruit, was first recorded in 1935. ~ (The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms).

• fruitcake (n.): 1. a silly-acting person. (also a term of address); [e.g.]: “You can be such a silly fruitcake sometimes”; “We went into this bar, but it was filled with fruitcakes, so we left”; 2. (and fruit loop): a foolish oaf; someone who is as nutty as a fruit loop; fruit loop is borrowed from the cereal of the same protected trade name); [e.g.]: “What a fruit loop! Doesn’t even know where his head is at”; “Out of the way, fruit loop”. ~ (McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions).

• nuttier than a fruitcake (n.): crazy, eccentric; this term originated in America about 1920 and transfers the actual nuts in a fruitcake to the colloquial meaning of nutty as crazy; the term later gave rise to the usage fruitcake for an eccentric individual. ~ (The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer).

• nutty as a fruitcake (Brit.; informal): if someone is as nutty as a fruitcake, they are crazy; [e.g.]: “The man is a charmer—intense, funny, and nutty as a fruitcake”. [‘nutty’ or ‘nuts’ is an informal word for mad; nutty can also mean containing a lot of nuts in the way that a fruitcake often does]. ~ (Collins Co-Build Idioms Dictionary).

• nutty as a fruitcake (informal): completely crazy; nutty meaning ‘mad or crazy’ dates from the late nineteenth century, and this phrase, punning on the sense of ‘full of nuts’, from the 1930s; fruitcake is also used on its own to mean ‘a crazy or eccentric person’. ~ (Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary).

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