nicker

Meanings

1. Pound sterling.

1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
2. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

1. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
2. To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.

1. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
2. 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.
3. Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.

1. To snatch or steal.

1. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
2. Hippopotamus.

1. nigger.

Etymology

Imitative; from 1774.