nickum

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English

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Etymology

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From Scots nickum, a suffixed form of Nick.

Noun

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nickum (plural nickums)

  1. (Scotland) A mischievous person; a scallywag. [from 19th c.]
    • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 451:
      Folk said he fair was a nickum, that loon, young Ewan Tavendale that came form the Manse []

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Scots

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Noun

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nickum (plural nickums)

  1. scallywag, nickum