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nicker

Wiktionary 原文

/ˈnɪkə(r)/

nicker¹词源 1

释义

名词noun

1UK, slangPound sterling.

同族词

派生词 1

Alan Whicker

nicker²词源 2

词源说明

Imitative; from 1774.

释义

名词noun

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

动词verb

1To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a

nicker³词源 3

构词拆解

nick

词干

er

后缀

-er: (added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun. · (added to verbs, informal) A person or thing to which the root verb is done or can be done satisfactorily.

nicker⁴词源 4

词源链

原始日耳曼语Proto-Germanic约前 500–公元 200 年
*nikraz
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古英语Old English约 450–1150 年
nicor
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中古英语Middle English约 1150–1500 年
niker

nicker⁵词源 5

词源说明

Mispronunciation of nigger.

释义

名词noun

1(euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.

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2To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.

词源说明

From nick + -er.

释义

名词noun

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

动词verb

1UK, informalTo snatch or steal.

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英语English

nicker

词源说明

From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikraz. Cognate with German Nix (“water demon”) and German Nixe (“female water-spirit”); also related to Old Norse nykr (“water demon”) (see there for further descendants). Doublet of nix.

释义

名词noun

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

同族词

同源异形词 1

nix