subs. (old).—See quot., 1696.
1696. Poor Robin [NARES]. How to make coffee, alias NINNY BROTH.
1698–1700. WARD, The London Spy, 1, (1706), i., 15. Being half choak’d with the Steem that arose from their Soot-colour’d NINNY-BROTH, their stinking Breaths, and suffocating Fumes.
1706. WARD, Hudibras Redivivus, pt. I.
| Which makes some saints low-teachers chuse | |
| Not for their doctrine, but their news. | |
| But when they’re in a fit of zeal, | |
| Their wounded consciences they heal | |
| With NINNY-BROTH, o’er which they seek | |
| Some new religion ev’ry week. |
