knicker

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/

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• Homophone: nicker

knicker (uncountable)

1. (used attributively as a modifier) Of or relating to knickers.

   knicker elastic, knicker drawer, knicker thief

   A knicker nicker nicked a pair of knickers off the clothesline.

2. knickerbockers
   • 1983, David Lanier Lewis, Laurence Goldstein, The Automobile and American Culture, page 58:

     Country club men had reinstated the knicker, adding four inches in length […]

   • 1925, The Clothier and Furnisher, volume 106, page 79:

     A sock worn in the regulation fashion, under the knicker, looks neatest and permits the proper full flare of the knicker.

From Dutch knikker.

knicker (plural knickers)

1. (dated, dialect, UK, US) A kind of marble used in games, originally made of clay, baked hard and oiled.

   Synonym: nicker

• “knicker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Kenrick, Kricken

• IPA^(key): /(k)ni.kœʁ/
• Rhymes: -œʁ

knicker m (plural knickers)

1. alternative form of knickers

• “knicker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.