Nicker vs False - What's the difference?
nicker | false |
(British, slang) Pound sterling.
(obsolete, slang) 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.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun nicker
is (british|slang) pound sterling or nicker can be a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse or nicker can be (obsolete|slang) one of the night brawlers of london formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.As a verb nicker
is to make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.nicker
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(nicker)- This coat cost me 50 nicker .
Synonyms
* (pound sterling) pound (standard), pound sterling (standard), quid (slang), sov (slang)Etymology 2
Synonyms
* neigh * whinnyEtymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- (Arbuthnot)
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}