Brewer's: Number Nip

The gnome king of the Giant Mountains. (Musaeus: Popular Tales.)

“She was like one of those portly dowagers in Number Nip's society of metamorphose and turnips.” —LeFanu: The House in the Churchyard, p. 132.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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