newsreader -
nicking - nosh -
nutter
newsreader
Anchor person of a news show on television.
"Give 'em a lifelong siesta, I would," snarled Uncle Vernon over the end of the newsreader's sentence...
- Vernon Dursley on the Spanish baggage-handlers' strike (OP1)
"Well, we'd better get downstairs for your surprise party, Harry - Fred and George should have nicked enough food from the kitchens by now."
- Ron (GF21)"'Ere, Dung, where didja get all them toads from? 'Cos some son of a Bludger's gone and nicked all mine!"
- Mundungus to Fred, George, and Ron (OP5)"But, you know, Will nicked 'em orf Warty Harris in the first place so I wasn't really doing nothing wrong."
- Mundungus to Molly (OP5)
nosh
Food, a light meal (from a Yiddish term meaning 'to nibble')
(NSOED).
"Excellent nosh, Petunia"
- Marge, at dinner on Privet Drive (PA2)
"Dad, we met Draco Malfoy in the woods, and he as good as told us his dad was one of those nutters in masks!"
- Ron to Arthur Weasley (GF9)"Talon-clipping by charms...treating scale-rot... This is no good, this is for nutters like Hagrid who want to keep them healthy."
- Harry to Hermione, researching dragons (GF20)
