Archaic Definition of the Week – Nicker

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publishingnicker. In Kingsley’s HYPATIA (1853) we find: “What is a nicor, Agilmund?” “A sea-devil who eats sailors.” Various other meanings have been attached to this form: a cheater; an 18th century hoodlum…

Dictionary of Early English by Joseph T. Shipley (1955).

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