Nuss

'Cose in days gone by a nuss was a nuss, cep' some was good and some was bad, but now it seems some is ladies an 'some ain't. " ❋ Nell Speed (1895)

"If ye kain't see the door-step yit, ye will mighty quick, unless thet pore feller ye shot has gone an 'died a-waitin' fer you-all to come an 'nuss' im .... ❋ Waldron Baily (N/A)

I 'longs to her, an 'I gwine stay wid' er myse'f, an 'nuss' er jes like Mammy say. " ❋ Unknown (1882)

Hi scott, try Ormond Meat & Smallgoods 9578 5049, Gruner Butcher in St Kilda, 9534 2715, Mileto in Windsor, 9510 2241 ask about their nuss ham and ask Prahran Continental the same thing, 9510 2809. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Merci bukkits nawt bloo fur teh Martoonie – teh sprinkuls add a tuch ob jhu nuss ay kwa tew teh coktayl. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I may be illygitmit, I may have been changed at nuss; but ❋ Unknown (2006)

‘To think,’ said Mrs Gamp, ‘as she should ever have helped to nuss that friend of yourn, and been so near of hearing things that — Ah!’ ❋ Unknown (2006)

Dey was in de nussery, an 'I was a rale smart cotton-picker, and couldn't be spar'd to nuss chillen, nohow.' ❋ Various (N/A)

I wuz hired as nuss girl at seven y'ars ole en started cookin 'at ten. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Mah muthas name was Charity and she wuz the family cook, yasum an ah wuz the nuss girl. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

An 'Juliet takes the physic, an' everybody thinks her dead, her father, an 'her mother, an' her old nuss, an 'Paris -- that's the name of the gentleman as they wanted her to marry -- an' there's such a hullabaloo an 'racket as niver was. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

At one time I wuz a chambermaid at de Nicholson House now de Tulane en later 'kum a sick nuss, a seamstress, dressmaker but now I pieces en sells bed quilts. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Big enough to nuss my mother's next chile, and she was walkin 'and talkin' 'fore surrender. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

I wuz nuss en house girl en l'arned how ter sew en nit. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Garry is, an 'he needs a nuss the worst way, Garry does. ❋ Waldron Baily (N/A)

W'en I wuz sold ter marster Simpkins, mah second mistress made me a house slave en I wuked only at de big house en mah wuk wus ter nuss en dress de chilluns en he'ps mah missis in her dressin '. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

De young slaves wuz hired out ter nuss de white chilluns. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Mr. Bentley wantid to be engaged as monthly nuss for my expected projeny; and a nother gen'leman, whose "name" shall be "never heard," offered to go _shears_ with me, if I'd consent to _cut-uup_ the Cort ladies. ❋ Various (N/A)

I'll nuss him no longer -- and the landlord wants the room. ❋ Various (N/A)