nicker
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Pound sterling.
- A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- A snigger or suppressed laugh.
- One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
- 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.
- Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
- A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
- Hippopotamus.
- nigger.
Verb
- To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
- To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
- To snatch or steal.
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