Nicker

Quick meaning: Nicker is a noun meaning (British, slang) Pound sterling.

Meaning

(British, slang) Pound sterling.

More Meanings

1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
2. A snigger or suppressed laugh.
3. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
4. To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
5. (informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.
6. 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.
7. (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.

Example Sentences

This coat cost me 50 nicker.

1713-1714, John Arbuthnot, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers

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?

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.

Word Forms

• nickers
• nickering
• nickered
• nicher

Synonyms for nicker

Depending on context, synonyms include pound, quid, sov, neigh, whinny, whicker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neigh, whinny, whicker, nickar, nickel, knickies.

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