Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To neigh softly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A demon of the water; a water-sprite; a nix or nixy.
- noun A neigh; also, a vulgar laugh.
- To neigh.
- To laugh with half-suppressed catches of the voice; snigger.
- noun One who or that which nicks.
- noun One of a company of brawlers who in the early part of the eighteenth century roamed about London by night, amusing themselves with breaking people's windows.
- noun A kind of marble for children's play.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Cant One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, slang
Pound sterling . - noun A soft
neighing sound characteristic of ahorse . - verb To make a soft
neighing sound characteristic of ahorse . - noun obsolete, slang One of the
night brawlers ofLondon formerly noted forbreaking windows withhalfpence . - noun The cutting
lip which projects downward at the edge of aboring bit and cuts acircular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
- verb make a characteristic sound, of a horse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The terms nicker for a one-pound note and half a nicker for a ten-shilling note are New Zealand expressions that arrived in Britain, and they were also widely used by counterfeiters in the underworld.
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-- A tropical plant, bearing the seeds known as nicker nuts, or bonduc nuts.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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Brown's "nicker" without acknowledgment, and lost it.
Tom, Dick and Harry Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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He broke off at sound of the unmistakable nicker of
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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A sudden, joyous nicker from without put the match between the pages of the frog book, and, while Oh
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My proceeded partly to dress his master in bed, including socks and shoes, the master, twisting partly on his side, stared out in the direction of the nicker.
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The air was heavy with lilac fragrance, and from the distance, as he rode between the lilac hedges, Graham heard the throaty nicker of Mountain
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Her approach elicited another resonant nicker from Rune, and when she set the basket at his feet he eagerly tore into the grain.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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From far, far above came a familiar nicker, one shadowed with worry.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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Between his labored breaths, he managed a soft nicker, a depositing of his trust in her.
Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010
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