nicker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Pound sterling.

   “This coat cost me 50 nicker.”

2. isim A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
3. isim A snigger or suppressed laugh.
4. fiil To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

   “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.”

5. fiil To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
6. isim 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”

7. isim 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.
8. isim Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.

   “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?”

9. fiil To snatch or steal.
10. isim A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.

    “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.”

11. isim Hippopotamus.
12. isim nigger.