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Nicker bits is London Cockney rhyming slang for diarrhoea (shits).
Noun. One pound sterling. Cf. 'nicker'. E.g."The yacht cost us half a million knicker just as a deposit."
Pair of nickers is British slang for two pounds sterling.
a pound (£1). Not pluralised for a number of pounds, eg., 'It cost me twenty nicker..' From the early 1900s, London slang, precise origin unknown. Possibly connected to the use of nickel in the minting of coins, and to the American slang use of nickel to mean a $5 dollar note, which at the late 1800s was valued not far from a pound. In the US a nickel is more commonly a five cent coin. A nicker bit is a one pound coin, and London cockney rhyming slang uses the expression 'nicker bits' to describe a case of diarrhoea.
Cow's licker is London Cockney rhyming slang for a pound (nicker).
distortion of 'nicker', meaning £1. See entry under 'nicker'. See also 'pair of knickers'.
half, half a bar/half a sheet/half a nicker
ten shillings (10/-), from the 1900s, and to a lesser degree after decimalisation, fifty pence (50p), based on the earlier meanings of bar and sheet for a pound. Half is also used as a logical prefix for many slang words which mean a pound, to form a slang expresion for ten shillings and more recently fifty pence (50p), for example and most popularly, 'half a nicker', 'half a quid', etc. The use of the word 'half' alone to mean 50p seemingly never gaught on, unless anyone can confirm otherwise.
Nicker is British slang for a pound sterling (and formerly a sovereign also).
Noun. One pound sterling. Also spelt 'knicker'. {Informal}
Cherry picker is old London Cockney rhyming slang for one pound (nicker).
Half a nicker is London Cockney rhyming slang for vicar.
pair of nickers/pair of knickers/pair o'nickers
two pounds (£2), an irresistible pun.
Alan Whicker is British rhyming slang for one pound (nicker).
Eels and liquor is London Cockney rhyming slang for one pound sterling (nicker).
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n.
See Nicker tree.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
n.
The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
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