noun
Meaning 1
Pound sterling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
Examples
- This coat cost me 50 nicker.
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Standard Lemma guide
nicker
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/ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
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rhymes with -ɪkə(ɹ)
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homophone: knicker
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homophone: nikka (non-rhotic)
noun
Meaning 2
A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Broader terms: neigh
noun
Meaning 3
A snigger or suppressed laugh.
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noun
Meaning 4
One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
Examples
- 1713-1714, John Arbuthnot, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers
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noun
Meaning 5
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.
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noun
Meaning 6
Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
Meaning 7
A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
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noun
Meaning 8
Hippopotamus.
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noun
Meaning 9
nigger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, euphemistic, offensive, slur, vulgar
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verb
Meaning 10
To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
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Broader terms: neigh
verb
Meaning 11
To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
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verb
Meaning 12
To snatch or steal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
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noun
Meaning 13
the characteristic sounds made by a horse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny
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Broader terms: cry
verb
Meaning 14
make a characteristic sound, of a horse
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny
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Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
History
Etymology
Imitative; from 1774.
From nick + -er.
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.
Mispronunciation of nigger.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: цвиля леко (cvilja leko) — to neigh softly
- Latvian: zviegt — to neigh softly
- Portuguese: relinchar — to neigh softly
- Russian: ржа́ть (ržátʹ) — to neigh softly