Nicker vs Bicker - What's the difference?
nicker | bicker |
(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.
To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.
* Barrow
To move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, of a flame)
*XIX cent,
* Thomson
To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight.
* Holland
A skirmish; an encounter.
(Scotland, obsolete) A fight with stones between two parties of boys.
A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention.
As nouns the difference between nicker and bicker
is that nicker is pound sterling while bicker is a skirmish; an encounter.As verbs the difference between nicker and bicker
is that nicker is to make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse while bicker is to quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner.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)
bicker
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) bikeren ‘to attack’, from (etyl) bicken ‘to stab, attack’ (modern bikken ‘to hack’), from (etyl) ‘to smash, break’.Verb
(en verb)- They bickered about dinner every evening.
- petty things about which men cark and bicker
- I come from haunts of coot and hern, / I make a sudden sally, / And sparkle out among the fern, / To bicker down a valley.
- They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade.
- Two eagles had a conflict, and bickered together.
Derived terms
*bickererSynonyms
* wrangle * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- (Jamieson)