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nicker.

Pound sterling.

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  1. Pound sterling.

    UK · slang
    This coat cost me 50 nicker.
noun/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

  2. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

Where this word comes from

Imitative; from 1774.

verb/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  1. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

  2. To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.

Where this word comes from

Imitative; from 1774.

noun/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  1. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.

    obsolete · slang
  2. 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.

  3. Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.

    informal
Where this word comes from

From nick + -er.

verb/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  1. To snatch or steal.

    UK · informal
Where this word comes from

From nick + -er.

noun/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  1. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.

  2. 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.

noun/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  1. nigger.

    derogatory · ethnic · euphemistic · offensive · slur · vulgar
Where this word comes from

Mispronunciation of nigger.

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