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 Nicknames.Nicodemused into Nothing, 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Nick’nev’en.
 
A gigantic malignant hag of Scotch superstition. Dunbar has well described this spirit in his Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy.   1
 


 Nicknames.Nicodemused into Nothing, 

 
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