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Mumble vs Nicker - What's the difference?

mumble | nicker |

As verbs the difference between mumble and nicker

is that mumble is (intransitive) to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate while nicker is to make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

As nouns the difference between mumble and nicker

is that mumble is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization while 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.

mumble

English

Verb

  • (intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
    • Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Peace, you mumbling fool.
  • * Otway
    • A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
  • To chew something gently with closed lips.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety peg

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
    • All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
  • A low tone of voice.
    • ''He spoke in a mumble .

    nicker

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (nicker)
  • (British, slang) Pound sterling.
    • This coat cost me 50 nicker .
    Synonyms
    * (pound sterling) pound (standard), pound sterling (standard), quid (slang), sov (slang)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
    • Synonyms
    * neigh * whinny

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
    • (Arbuthnot)
  • 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.