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Nickle vs Rickle - What's the difference?

nickle | rickle |

As nouns the difference between nickle and rickle

is that nickle is misspelling of lang=en while rickle is a loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.

As a proper noun Nickle

is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.

nickle

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • rickle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
  • * 1932 , , Sunset Song , Canongate Books (2008), ISBN 9781847673596, page 22:
  • It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old
  • A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
  • * 1844 , dated 28 June 1844, re-printed in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (ed. Alexander Carlyle), John Lane (1903), pages 136-137:
  • We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on;
  • Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
  • * 1899 , Golf Illustrated , Volume 2, page 93:
  • On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.
  • An emaciated person or animal.
  • * 1899 , , In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore , Doubleday & McClure (1899), page 228:
  • But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.

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