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nuntee

nuntee is the alternative spelling of nanti.

Meaning of nanti

Determiner

nanti

  1. (Polari) No; not any.
    • There was no clown for the pantomime, for he had disappointed us, and of course they couldn't get on without one; so, to keep the concern going, old Johnson, who know I was a good tumbler, came up to me, and said 'he had nanti vampo, and your nabs must fake it;' which means,—We have no clown, and...1851, Henry Mayhew, “Our Street Folk”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 3, published 1861, The Canvas Clown, page 126

Questions about nuntee

What is nuntee the alternative spelling of?
Nuntee is the alternative spelling of nanti.

Words near nuntee in the dictionary

  1. Nuns of the Visitation
  2. Nuns' Island
  3. nunship
  4. Nunspeet
  5. nunsploitation
  6. nuntee
  7. Nunthorpe
  8. nuntii
  9. nuntius
  10. nunty
  11. nunu

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