nickum
English
editEtymology
editFrom Scots nickum, a suffixed form of Nick.
Noun
editnickum (plural nickums)
- (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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editNoun
editnickum (plural nickums)