different between knicker vs knucker

English

Etymology 1

Noun

knicker (uncountable)

1. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickers.

   knicker elastic, knicker drawer, knicker thief

   A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.

2. knickerbockers
   • 1983, David Lanier Lewis, Laurence Goldstein, The Automobile and American Culture (page 58)

     Country club men had reinstated the knicker, adding four inches in length […]

   • 1925, The Clothier and Furnisher (volume 106, page 79)

     A sock worn in the regulation fashion, under the knicker, looks neatest and permits the proper full flare of the knicker.

Etymology 2

From Dutch knikker.

Noun

knicker (plural knickers)

1. (dated, dialect, Britain, US) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble in games.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(k)ni.kœ?/
• Rhymes: -œ?

Noun

knicker m (plural knickers)

1. Alternative form of knickers

Further reading

• “knicker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Old English nicor (“water monster; hippopotamus”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

knucker (plural knuckers)

1. (Britain, dialect) A kind of water dragon, said to live in knuckerholes in Sussex, England.

Further reading

• knucker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia