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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]nikker (plural nikkers)
- (uncommon) Alternative form of nicker (“A sea devil.”)
- 1877, Charles Mackay, The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects, page 265:
- Davy Jones's Locker [...] A sailor's name for a principal sea-devil, a nikker. - HALLIWELL.
- 1919, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, page 12:
- ... and killing sea-nikkers by night. Alone will I combat with this demon, the giant Grendel . . . I shall wrestle for life, foe against foe.
- 1961, Sietze Buning, A Linguistic Analysis of Words Referring to Monsters in Beowulf, volume 2, page 280:
- Whether the monster slain is a sea-dragon or a nikker remains a problem. […]
- 2018 March 29, Edith Elizabeth Wardale, Revival: Chapters on Old English Literature (1935), Routledge, →ISBN:
- If the poet has mixed up Danish and English scenery in his mere, and the "nikkers" and other monsters have no business in an English lake, they are most certainly there.
- 2022 June 12, Louis Tracy, The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy: 14 Novels in One Edition, DigiCat:
- "A nikker is Davy Jones, / Just one more plug, an' a swig at the jug, / An' up with the skull an' bones."
Dutch
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from English nigger, from a Romance language, ultimately from Latin niger (“shining black”); but also influenced by etymology 2 as nixies were believed to be of a dark colour. Doublet of neger.
Noun
[edit]nikker m (plural nikkers, diminutive nikkertje n)
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) A nigger (offensive slur for a black person). [from 19th c.]
Alternative forms
[edit]- n-woord (rare, euphemism)
Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle Dutch nicker (“nix, nixie; demon”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *nikwus, *nikwis (“nix, water-sprite”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”).
Noun
[edit]nikker m (plural nikkers, diminutive nikkertje n)
- (mythology, dated, now likely to be confused with the ethnic slur) A water spirit, especially one who lures (young) people to drown; a neck, nix, nixie. [from 16th c.]
- 1873, R. R. Rijkens, De reiziger. Aardrijkskundige beschrijvingen en schilderingen. Leesboek voor de hoogste klasse der lagereschool, 3rd revised edition, J. B. Wolters, page 94:
- Het volk in de nabijheid der hooge bergmeren gelooft nog aan allerlei kobolden, elfen, nikkers, water- en berggeesten.
- The people in the vicinity of the high mountain lakes still believe in all kinds of kobolds, elves, necks, water sprites and mountain spirits.
- 1924, Lodewijk Opdebeek, "Peters Kind" (part 6, "Muziek"), De Vlaamsche Gids, page 289.
- Hij vermaande hem zoetjes, sprak van Nikker en Bloedkaros, maar Fikske liet zich niet afbangen, 't kon hem allemaal niet schelen: het manneke, daar diep beneden, trok hem te veel aan.
- He gently reprimanded him, talked about the nixie and the child-butchering carriage, but Fikske wouldn't let himself get scared of it, he couldn't care less about it all: the little man, down below there, attracted him far too much for that.
- Synonyms: nix, watergeest
- (obsolete) A demon, a devil. [16th–19th c.]
Maltese
[edit]Root |
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n-k-r |
2 terms |
Etymology
[edit]Related to Arabic نَكِرَ (nakira, “to deny”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]nikker (imperfect jnikker, past participle mnikker, verbal noun tinkir)
- to slow (something or someone)
Conjugation
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1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
perfect | m | nikkirt | nikkirt | nikker | nikkirna | nikkirtu | nikkru | |
f | nikkret | |||||||
imperfect | m | nnikker | tnikker | jnikker | nnikkru | tnikkru | jnikkru | |
f | tnikker | |||||||
imperative | nikker | nikkru |
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