Nimming

stealing. Old English , NIM , to take. Mother well, the Scotch poet, thought the old word NIM (to snatch or pick up) was derived from nam, nam , the tiny words or cries of an infant, when eating anything which pleases its little palate. A negro proverb has the word:— “Buckra man NAM crab, Cram NAM buckra man.” Or, in the buckra man’s language— “White man eat [or steal] the crab, And then crab eat the white man.” Shakspeare evidently had the word NIM in his head when he portrayed Nym.