nicker — English Dictionary

Noun

1. Pound sterling.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Slang

   Examples

   This coat cost me 50 nicker.

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   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?

Noun

1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

   Broader terms

   neigh

2. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

Verb

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

   Broader terms

   neigh

   Examples

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   Behind him, old Akthoob was grumbling loudly, saying something about the midday meal, and Haral, the black Feridoon pony, snuffing in the old, familiar scent of the green meadows of the Chaya's banks, the warm sweet smells of home, was nickering eagerly.

   "Nasrullah's nickerin’, Mr. Arthur. Somethin's wrong." "Hell, he's nickered before. He nickers all the time!" Robinson and Snow looked at each other, saying nothing for a moment, and finally Snow told Hancock that Nasrullah never nickered in the paddock.

   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.

Noun

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

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Slang

   Examples

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

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.

   Usage

   • Informal

   Examples

   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?

Verb

1. To snatch or steal.

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Informal

Noun

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

   Examples

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   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.

2. Hippopotamus.

Noun

1. nigger.

   Usage

   • Derogatory
   • ethnic
   • euphemistic
   • Offensive
   • slur
   • Vulgar

   Related words

   nicker beannicker nutnicker tree

Noun

1. the characteristic sounds made by a horse

   Synonyms

   neighwhickerwhinny

   Broader terms

   cry

Verb

1. make a characteristic sound, of a horse

   Synonyms

   neighwhickerwhinny

   Broader terms

   utteremitlet outlet loose