Noun: nikker
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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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.) [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:]
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1924, Lodewijk Opdebeek, "Peters Kind" (part 6, "Muziek"), De Vlaamsche Gids, page 289.
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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.)
Nouns inflected like nikker
vaatwasmachine,
hekkensluiter,
urinoir,
whiskey,
internetsite,
internetcafé,
bestemoer,
besteller,
renovatie,
stokstaartje,
benzinestation,
kruipklokje,
bodybuildster,
scharminkel,
vrijbuiter,
server,
serval,
sessie,
seider,
selfie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: English Nouns '
nigger', Latin Nouns '
niger'.
Verbs referencing "nikker"
Old English Nouns
nicor, Danish Nouns
nøkke.
Translations