Nicker

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  • intransitive verb. To neigh softly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Pound sterling.
  • noun. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
  • verb. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
  • noun. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "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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