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Old Noll. Oliver Cromwell was so called by the Royalists. Noll is a familiar contraction of Oliver—i.e. Olʹ with an initial liquid.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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