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.
- 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.
- To neigh.
- To laugh with half-suppressed catches of the voice; snigger.
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 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. - noun A soft
neighing sound characteristic of ahorse . - verb To make a soft
neighing sound characteristic of ahorse .
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
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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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