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nicker

noun
/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikwis. 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.

  1. inherited from *nikwis✻
  2. inherited from nicor
  3. inherited from niker

Definitions

  1. Pound sterling.

    • This coat cost me 50 nicker.
    • Seems? Well, this seems to be a waste of my time. That is 900 nicker in any shop you're lucky enough to find one in. And you're complaining about 200? What school of finance did you study?

  2. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

  3. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

      • After a few minutes, the mare walked over and nickered loudly in his ear, and he immediately got to his feet and stripped the gear from the waiting horse.

    2. To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.

    3. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.

      • 1713-1714, John Arbuthnot, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers

    4. The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular…

      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.

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

      • He […] was far more interested in the fact that I was a car thief and an expert driver than that I was a bandit. […] Car nicker, are you?

    6. To snatch or steal.

    7. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster

      A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.

      • And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people.

    8. Hippopotamus.

    9. nigger.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA