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nicker
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?k?(?)/
- Rhymes: -?k?(r)
- Homophone: knicker; nikka (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
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Noun
nicker (plural nicker)
- (Britain, slang) Pound sterling.
Synonyms
- (pound sterling): pound (standard), pound sterling (standard), quid (slang), sov (slang)
Derived terms
- Alan Whicker
Etymology 2
Imitative; from 1774.
Noun
nicker (plural nickers)
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
Verb
nicker (third-person singular simple present nickers, present participle nickering, simple past and past participle nickered)
- To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- 1971, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji, 1999, Wildside Press, page 187,
- 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.
- 1988, William Nack, Secretariat: The Making of a Champion, 2002, Da Capo Press, page 58,
- "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.
- 2012, Jim Campbell, Bobcat, Xlibris, page 21,
- 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.
- 1971, Lin Carter, The Quest of Kadji, 1999, Wildside Press, page 187,
- To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
Synonyms
- (to make a neighing sound): neigh, whinny
Translations
Etymology 3
nick +? -er
Noun
nicker (plural nickers)
- (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
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- 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.
- (informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- 1934, Eddie Browne, Road Pirate: The Confessions of a Motor Bandit (page 141)
- 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?
- 1934, Eddie Browne, Road Pirate: The Confessions of a Motor Bandit (page 141)
Verb
nicker (third-person singular simple present nickers, present participle nickering, simple past and past participle nickered)
- (Britain, informal) To snatch or steal.
Etymology 4
From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor.
Noun
nicker (plural nickers)
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
Anagrams
- Cernik, Kincer, Renick
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moo
English
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /mu?/
- (US) IPA(key): /mu/
- Rhymes: -u?
- Homophone: mu
Noun
moo (plural moos)
- (onomatopoeia) The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
- (Britain, slang, mildly derogatory) A foolish woman.
- You silly moo! What did you do that for?
Derived terms
- moolike
Translations
Verb
moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)
- (intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
Synonyms
- low, boo (rare)
Translations
Interjection
moo
- The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
Translations
Anagrams
- OOM, omo-, oom
Arabela
Noun
moo
- river
Japanese
Romanization
moo
- R?maji transcription of ??
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish móu, móo, from Proto-Celtic *m?yos, comparative form of *m?ros, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?-. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic mò, Irish mó and Welsh mwy.
Adjective
moo
- comparative degree of mooar (“big, great, large”)
See also
- smoo
Murui Huitoto
Etymology
From Proto-Huitoto-Ocaina *m?h?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?m??]
- Hyphenation: moo
Root
moo
- father
Derived terms
- mooma
Noun
moo
- vocative of mooma (“father”)
Noun
moo
- Synonym of mooma (“father”)
Coordinate terms
- ei
References
- Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)?[1] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 180
- Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.?[2], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 125
Sotho
Adverb
moo
- there; distal demonstrative adverb.
Ulch
Noun
moo
- tree, wood
References
- Sonya Oskolskaya, Natasha Stoynova, Some Changes in the Noun Paradigm of Ulcha Under the Language Shift, 2017.
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