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What is the noun for nickering?

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nick
  1. A small cut in a surface.
    1. (now rare) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
    2. (printing, dated) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
  2. Meanings connoting something small.
    1. (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
    2. (real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
    3. (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
  3. (archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.
  4. (Britain, slang) In the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition.
  5. (Britain, law enforcement slang) A police station or prison.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. chip, cut, notch, scratch, score, dent, mark, incision, indent, indentation, scrape, snick, abrasion, blemish, dint, gash, gouge, groove, hack, defect, flaw, indenture, jag, kerf, scar, damage, knock, mill, slit, slash, cleft, wound, laceration, graze, bruise, injury, trauma, lesion, rip, slot, rent, scotch, tear, nip, rabbet, dissection, snip, scarification, sore, carving … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “She crouched down and saw a large pot. There was a small nick in the side from a bulldozer blade, but fortunately, the cut was shallow.”
      “He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick to be charged.”
      “He's just been released from Shadwell nick after doing ten years for a heinous crime.”
nicker
  1. (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
  2. The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
  3. (informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief. Often used in combination, e.g. a knicker nicker.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. pound sterling, quid, smacker, pound, sov, oncer, smackeroo, £, GBP, oner, sovereign, snicker, snigger, chuckle, chortle, giggle, laugh, titter, laughter, cackle, guffaw, cachinnation, twitter, boff, horselaugh, boffo, boffola, nicher, sneer, simper, smirk, hee-haw, belly laugh, neigh, whinny, bray, snort, snuffle, whicker, roar, shriek, tee-hee, chuckling, howling, shout, giggling, peal of laughter, shriek of laughter, hoot of laughter, roar of laughter … more
nickase
  1. (biochemistry) Any enzyme that causes nicks (breaks in one strand) of nucleic acid, allowing it to unwind
nicking
  1. (mining) The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. gash, pricking
nicker
  1. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pound sterling, quid, smacker, pound, sov, oncer, smackeroo, £, GBP, oner, sovereign, snicker, snigger, chuckle, chortle, giggle, laugh, titter, laughter, cackle, guffaw, cachinnation, twitter, boff, horselaugh, boffo, boffola, nicher, sneer, simper, smirk, hee-haw, belly laugh, neigh, whinny, bray, snort, snuffle, whicker, roar, shriek, tee-hee, chuckling, howling, shout, giggling, peal of laughter, shriek of laughter, hoot of laughter, roar of laughter … more
nicker
  1. (Britain, slang) Pound sterling.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pound sterling, quid, smacker, pound, sov, oncer, smackeroo, £, GBP, oner, sovereign, snicker, snigger, chuckle, chortle, giggle, laugh, titter, laughter, cackle, guffaw, cachinnation, twitter, boff, horselaugh, boffo, boffola, nicher, sneer, simper, smirk, hee-haw, belly laugh, neigh, whinny, bray, snort, snuffle, whicker, roar, shriek, tee-hee, chuckling, howling, shout, giggling, peal of laughter, shriek of laughter, hoot of laughter, roar of laughter … more
nick
  1. (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. chip, cut, notch, scratch, score, dent, mark, incision, indent, indentation, scrape, snick, abrasion, blemish, dint, gash, gouge, groove, hack, defect, flaw, indenture, jag, kerf, scar, damage, knock, mill, slit, slash, cleft, wound, laceration, graze, bruise, injury, trauma, lesion, rip, slot, rent, scotch, tear, nip, rabbet, dissection, snip, scarification, sore, carving … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “She crouched down and saw a large pot. There was a small nick in the side from a bulldozer blade, but fortunately, the cut was shallow.”
      “He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick to be charged.”
      “He's just been released from Shadwell nick after doing ten years for a heinous crime.”
nickering
  1. The sound of a horse that nickers.
nickings
  1. (mining, plural only) Small coal produced during cutting at the side of the coalface.
  2. (mining) plural of nicking
  3. Synonyms:
      4. gashes, prickings, larceny, thefts, robbery, pilferings, stealing, thieveries, burglaries, thieving, misappropriation, embezzlements, shoplifting, peculations, purloinings, pinches, filchings, appropriations, expropriation, crime, lift, liftings, pinchings, steals, touch, breaking and entering, pilferage, defalcations, fraud, swindlings, lootings, robbing, whipping, misuses, misapplications, abstraction, skimmings, felonies, snatches, rapine, blags, rip-offs, spoliations, heists, depredation, jobs, swindles, capers, hits, steamings … more
nickerings
  1. plural of nickering
nickases
  1. plural of nickase
nicks
  1. plural of nick
  2. Synonyms:
      3. chips, cuts, notches, scratches, scores, dents, marks, incision, indents, indentation, scrapes, snicks, abrasions, blemishes, dint, gashes, gouges, grooves, hacks, defects, flaws, indentures, jags, kerfs, scars, damage, knocks, mills, slits, wounds, lacerations, slashes, clefts, grazes, injury, bruises, stabs, punctures, pricks, nips, traumas, lesions, rabbets, rent, pinpricks, rips, holes, scarification, snips, carvings … more
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