nicker
Pound sterlingPound sterling.
Значение
значений: 9(Британия, сленг)Pound sterling.
This coat cost me 50 nicker.
A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
the characteristic sounds made by a horse
A snigger or suppressed laugh.
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.
(разговорное)Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
Hippopotamus.
(пренебрежительное, ethnic, эвфемизм, оскорбительное, slur, вульгарное)Nigger.
(устаревшее, сленг)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
Происхождение
Imitative; from 1774. From nick + -er. From Middle English niker, from Old English nicImitative; from 1774.
From nick + -er.
From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikraz. 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.
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Формы
мн. число: nicker / nickersСинонимы
синонимов: 7Однокоренные
связанных слов: 3Уроки к слову
уроков: 1- A1Множественное число существительных — Потому что у него неправильное множественное число