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  • Nebuchadnezzar: Chaldaean ruler of Babylon, who conquered Jerusalem and carried the Jews into Babylonian Captivity; prominent in the Book of Daniel; said to have gone insane for seven years
  • no bucket nozzler: One who drinks straight from the nozzle, rather than use a bucket
  • Nebuchadnezzar: (song) The Groves of Blarney: “But were I Homer or Nebuchadnezzar”
  • Nabucco: an opera by Giuseppe Verdi (1842, his third opera and the one that established his reputation, thanks to a famous chorus of Hebrew slaves that was a little-disguised protest against Austrian domination in Italy. The subject of the opera is the subjugation of the Jews by Nebuchadnezzar.

Commentary

Several versions of a children's rhyme:

Nebuchadnezzar the King of the Jews 
Sold his wife for a pair of shoes.
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Jews, 
Pulled off his stockings, but left on his shoes.
    Nebuchadnezzar, the King of the Jews,
    Suffered from new and original views,
    He crawled on his hands and knees it's said,
    With grass in his mouth and a crown on his head,
       With a wowtyiddly, etc.
   "Those in traditional paths that trod,
    Thought the thing was a curse from God;
    But a Pioneer men always abuse,
    Like Nebuchadnezzar the King of the Jews.