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NICKED

Definition: NICKED

NICKED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Nick

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NICKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

 

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Crosswords: NICKED

English words defined with "NICKED": Jag boltnicksnick. (references)
Specialty definitions using "NICKED": BLEMISH REMOVERcolor repairerdull shoe repairerIn Situ Nick-End Labelingleather repairershoe repairer, Sneck Posset. (references)

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Modern Usage: NICKED

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Nicked at the Bottle (1963)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: NICKED

"NICKED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 48.47% of the time. "NICKED" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)48.47%11130,796
Lexical Verb (past tense)42.79%9833,072
Adjective (general or positive)6.55%1590,616
Noun (proper)2.18%5157,705
                    Total100.00%229N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: NICKED

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "NICKED": nick-nicked.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NICKED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nicked

8

girl nicked

3

news nicked

3

nicked woman

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: NICKED

Language Translations for "NICKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

刻痕于 (Nicking). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

scheurweerstand bij insnijding (tear resistance determination with a nicked test piece). (various references)

   

French

  

détermination de la résistance l'entaille (tear resistance determination with a nicked test piece). (various references)

   

German

  

schnitt ein (incised), gekerbt (indented, notched, scalloped). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

rovátkolt (scored, striate, striated), kurtírozott, kicsorbult (chipped, jagged, notched), csorba (chip, chipped, chippy, dent, jagged, nick, notch, ragged), bevágott (notched), bemetszett (notched). (various references)

   

Italian

  

determinazione della resistenza alla lacerazione su un provino intagliato (tear resistance determination with a nicked test piece). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

새김눈을 내". (various references)

   

Manx

  

goit (apprehended, captive, captured, impounded, preoccupied, seized, taken), giarrit (carved, censored, chopped, clipped, condensed, curtailed, disconnected, hewn, intersected, lanced, lopped, shortened, slashed, trimmed, truncated), aggagh (indented, jagged, serrated, stepped). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickednay

   

Portuguese

  

determinacao da resistência ao rasgamento em amostra com entalhe (tear resistance determination with a nicked test piece). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

hârbuit (chippy), cu zimţi, ciobit (chippy), ştirb (blunt, toothless). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ensayo de resistencia al desgarro con probeta con corte inicial (tear resistance determination with a nicked test piece). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ถูกจับ (bagged, busted, collared, copped, dropped, flagged, gaffled, glued, guzzled, nabbed, nailed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: NICKED

Derivations

Words ending with "NICKED": panicked, picnicked, snicked. (additional references)


Misspellings

"NICKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: knicked, micked, nacked, ncced, necke, necker, neckweed, nekkid, niced, niched, nicke, Nickey, Nickies, Nicklen, Nicko, nicle, Nikkor, nipkow, Nockold, nucked. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "NICKED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "NICKED" (pronounced ni"kt)
3-i" k taddict, afflict, clicked, constrict, contradict, depict, evict, handpicked, inflict, kicked, Licht, licked, picked, predict, pricked, restrict, slicked, strict, ticked, tricked.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: NICKED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-k-n"

-1 letter: inked.

-2 letters: cedi, cine, deck, deni, dice, dick, dike, dine, dink, iced, kind, kine, neck, nice, nick, nide.

-3 letters: den, die, din, end, ice, ick, ink, ken, kid, kin.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, id, in, ne.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-k-n"
 

+1 letter: chinked, clinked, decking, dickens, nickled, snicked, zincked.

 

+2 letters: anticked, benedick, crinkled, deckings, nickeled, nickered, panicked, sickened, unlicked, unpicked.

 

+3 letters: bedecking, benedicks, chickened, clinkered, dackering, deticking, dezincked, dickenses, dickering, docketing, donnicker, nickelled, nicknamed, nitpicked, picnicked, quickened, redocking, snickered, thickened.

 

+4 letters: candlewick, defrocking, dezincking, dominicker, donnickers, dyskinetic, handpicked, jackknifed, kinescoped, pinpricked, stockinged, undertrick, wickedness.

 

+5 letters: backslidden, buckskinned, candlestick, candlewicks, cinderblock, cockneyfied, deadlocking, dominickers, interlocked, medevacking, misreckoned, nickelodeon, overdecking, slickenside, stickhandle, trickledown, unchildlike, undertricks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NICKED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 49 43 4B 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ..    -.-.    -.-    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#73 &#67 &#75 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0049 0043 004B 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

484337453938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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