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n itty-bitty; very small. Usually be seen in use regarding “cute” things: What an ickle puppy! Less likely to be seen in more serious situations: Dad - I’ve just had an ickle accident in your car.
Rip Van Winkle is London Cockney rhyming slang for urination (tinkle).
Adj. Small, little. A mock juvenile shortening of the word 'lickle'. Cf. 'lickle'.
Pickle and pork is London Cockney rhyming slang for talk.
Huckle is American slang for an effeminate homosexual.
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.
Sickle is British slang for a cycle.
Bit of slap and tickle is British slang for sexual activities.
Block and tackle is London Cockney rhyming slang for handcuffs (shackles). Block and tackle was old London Cockney rhyming slang for fetters (shackles). Block and tackle was old Cockney slang for a watch and chain.
nipple gripple, nipple cripple
Gripping and twisting the victims (usu. male) nipple violently.
Nickle and dime is American slang for trifling, cheap or petty.
Nicker is British slang for a pound sterling (and formerly a sovereign also).
Pickle is British slang for the penis.
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n.
Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.
n.
The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
v. t.
A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
n.
To supply with tackle.
imp. & p. p.
of Pickle
n. & v. t.
Same as Hackle.
n.
A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
v. t.
To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
adv.
In a fickle manner.
n.
See Picle.
a.
Ticklish; easily tickled.
superl.
Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.
superl.
Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.
n.
One who makes pickles.
imp. & p. p.
of Tickle
a.
Preserved in a pickle.
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See Mickle.
a.
Furnished with a sickle.
n.
A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
n.
One who uses a sickle; a sickleman; a reaper.
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