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nicker

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Noun

  1. Pound sterling.
  2. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
  3. A snigger or suppressed laugh.
  4. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
  5. 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.
  6. Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
  7. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
  8. Hippopotamus.
  9. nigger.

Verb

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

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