Brewer's: Noll

Old Noll. Oliver Cromwell was so called by the Royalists. Noll is a familiar contraction of Oliver —i.e. Ol,' with an initial liquid.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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