noots

When I asked about nuts and fish (I rarely take it for granted that a dish is exactly as it appears,) he said, "No fish, no beef, no pork and no 'noots' of any kind."

Please Don't Pass The Nuts™ 2009

He explained that in spanish the word for "noots" is actually seeds and that one ask to ask about a particular kind of "noot" like almond, walnut, etc. Interesting.

Please Don't Pass The Nuts™ 2009

Wy ondergeschreven (alle t'samen gevaren hebbende met d'fregat de _la garce_ daer Capetain op is Willem Albertsz Blaeuvelt, gecruyst hebbende inde West Indisch) attesteeren, getuigen ende verclaren in plaets ende belofte van Solemneelen Eede, des noots synde, hoe dat waer ende waerachtich is, dat wy verovert hebben inde reviere van

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

Alle t'welcke wy ondergeschreven verclaren alsoo waer ende waerachtich te weesen, presenteerende t'selve, des noots synde, altoos met Eede te verifieeren.

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

He has got some dragons that fall little short of the Devil himself in general hideousness and outrageous tails; some noots brought from Nootka Sound; some green monsters from Green Bay; some devilish things from Van Diemon's land; and finally, Plutarch is himself hideous, and ought to be put in a collection, which by the by, he lately _was_.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 Various 1840

I mean, I can appreciate it now on the level of ML-in-joke, but it's [voice funny="Pirate in a bar"It's drivin' me noots![

Making Light: Open thread 137 2010