Nickers vs Knickers - What's the difference?
nickers | knickers |
(nicker)
(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.
Knickerbockers.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 29:
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 77:
(UK, NZ) Women's underpants.
* 2010 , Sali Hughes, ‘Calendar girls galore’, The Guardian , 24 Apr 2010:
As a verb nickers
is third-person singular of nicker.As a noun knickers is
knickerbockers.As an interjection knickers is
a mild exclamation of annoyance.nickers
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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)
knickers
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(wikipedia knickers)Noun
(en-plural noun)- Students in the University were not permitted to keep cars, and the men – hatless, in knickers and bright pull-overs – looked down upon the town boys who wore hats cupped rigidly upon pomaded heads [...].
- He was a student at Notre Dame, a robust Joe-College kind of kid, husky and tall and always dressed in plus-four knickers .
- The debate here is not over whether raising £26,000 (and counting) for our troops is a wonderful thing – it unarguably is – but over whether, whenever times are tough and money must be found, our default reaction as women should be to take off our knickers to help out?