9 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFF ONE'S NANA»
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
... the point of exhaustion: Players of less experience would have been run off
their legs long before this pair showed signs of flagging. be off one's nana lose
one's nana be off one 's nana - (Austrai. si.) be mentally deranged: We've all
learned ...
2
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
(1)) off one's nana/7/7r. [1940s+] eccentric, mad (d. bananas adj.; off one's base
phr.). ]SEoff+ nana n. (2)] off one's nob phr. [1950s+] 1 eccentric, insane (cf. off
one's base phr.). 2 drunk (cf. addled adj.). [SE off+ nob n.1 (1)] off one's nut phr.
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
... off one's conk; off one's gourd; off one's head; off one's nana; off one's nut; off
one's onion; off one's pannikin; off one's rocker; off one's rocket; off one's trolley;
out of one's head; out of one's skull; out of one's tree; poggle; ravers; rock-happy;
...
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
(pronv nahna or narna). A banana: nursery coll.: late C.19—20. Cf. nanny, 4.—2.
?Hence, 'the head, in such expressions as "off one's nana”, ”do one's nana'” (
Wilkes): Aus.: later C.20. At this entry Wilkes also quotes synon. nanny, dated
1894.
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The Chambers Dictionary
... as gnamma hoi*. nan1 or naan nan, n a type of slightly leavened bread, as
baked in India and Pakistan, similar to pitta bread. [Hindi] nan2 and nana1. See
nanny. nana2 na n,>. (orig Auslr slang) n an idiot, fool: the head, as in off one's
nana.
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Chambers concise dictionary
[19c : probably from BANANA] ♢ off one's nana Aust slang mad. nana2 see under
NANNY nancy /'nansi/ or nancy boy >n (nancies or nancy boys) derog, colloq 1
an effeminate young man or boy. 2 a homosexual youth. [Early 20c: from Nancy,
...
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Australian words and their origins
1984 Age (Melbourne) 9 Aug. 1/7 Species already extinct in Australia . . crescent
nail tail wallaby. namma hole, var. Gnamma hole. nana /'nana/. Prob. f. banana.]
1. In the phr. off one's nana, mentally deranged; to do (or lose) one's nana, ...
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New Zealand English: an introduction to New Zealand speech ...
... familiar with. to come the raw prawn to bat the breeze to put the mozz on to spit
chips to be off one's nana to stick one's bib in don't get off your bikel go for your
lifel up a gumtree in the nuddy on one's pat Rafferty's rules prezzie bull-dust kero
...
Elizabeth Gordon, Tony Deverson, 1985
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The PCOS Diet Book: How You Can Use the Nutritional Approach ...
One in 10 women suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome.
Colette Harris, Theresa Francis-Cheung, 2002
