Citations:nicky nacky noo
English citations of nicky nacky noo
Noun: "A nonsense placeholder phrase for a nonspecific thing or action, especially something small or insignificant."
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- 1945 September, “That's What They Taught Me When I Went to School”, in Mess Songs and Rhymes of the R.A.A.F.: 1939 - 1945, New Guinea, page 57:
- With my hand on myself, what have I here,
This is my Ticky—box, My Mother Dear,
This is my Ticky Box, Nicky,Nacky Noo,
That's what they taught me when I went to School.
- 2002, Gavin Ross, "Competition - Win vouchers to spend at any Tesco store", New Statesman, volume 131, issues 4577-4586, p. 58, 8 April 2002.
- Second minute Arrivals. Exchanges of official greeting: "Nicky nacky noo."
- 2003, Jez Abbot "Claws are out for catwalk king over housing design", The Architects Journal, volume 218, page 5, Architectural Press Limited, 2003 →OCLC.
- The private sector has just about woken up to the fact they don't have to do nicky-nacky-noo, and are now leapfrogging architects.
- 2011, Jenny Eclair, Judith Holder, Grumpy Old Couples: Men are from Mars. Women have just got back from Tesco's, Hachette UK, 2011 →ISBN.
- A nearby nicky nacky noo shop. Somewhere she can buy birthday cards and scented candles; one of those shops that sells glittery hair slides and all sorts of things you didn't know you wanted but can easily spend eight quid on.
- 2012, Jennifer and Graeme Curry, The Complete School Verse, Random House, 2012 →ISBN.
- With my hands on my head, what have I here?
- This is my brain-box, and nothing to fear.
- Brain-box and nicky-nacky-noo,
- That's what they taught me when I went to school
- ―Traditional