nicker.
Pound sterling.
Meaning & usage
Pound sterling.
This coat cost me 50 nicker.
A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
A snigger or suppressed laugh.
Where this word comes from
Imitative; from 1774.
To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
Where this word comes from
Imitative; from 1774.
One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
Where this word comes from
From nick + -er.
To snatch or steal.
Where this word comes from
From nick + -er.
A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
Hippopotamus.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikraz. Cognate with German Nix (“water demon”) and German Nixe (“female water-spirit”); also related to Old Norse nykr (“water demon”) (see there for further descendants). Doublet of nix.
nigger.
Where this word comes from
Mispronunciation of nigger.
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