See nikker on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1877, Charles Mackay, The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects, page 265:",
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"ref": "1919, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, page 12:",
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"ref": "1873, R. R. Rijkens, De reiziger. Aardrijkskundige beschrijvingen en schilderingen. Leesboek voor de hoogste klasse der lagereschool, 3rd revised edition, J. B. Wolters, page 94:",
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"text": "1924, Lodewijk Opdebeek, \"Peters Kind\" (part 6, \"Muziek\"), De Vlaamsche Gids, page 289.\nHij vermaande hem zoetjes, sprak van Nikker en Bloedkaros, maar Fikske liet zich niet afbangen, 't kon hem allemaal niet schelen: het manneke, daar diep beneden, trok hem te veel aan.",
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"english": "The people in the vicinity of the high mountain lakes still believe in all kinds of kobolds, elves, necks, water sprites and mountain spirits.",
"ref": "1873, R. R. Rijkens, De reiziger. Aardrijkskundige beschrijvingen en schilderingen. Leesboek voor de hoogste klasse der lagereschool, 3rd revised edition, J. B. Wolters, page 94:",
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"english": "He gently reprimanded him, talked about the nixie and the child-butchering carriage, but Fikske wouldn't let himself get scared of it, he couldn't care less about it all: the little man, down below there, attracted him far too much for that.",
"text": "1924, Lodewijk Opdebeek, \"Peters Kind\" (part 6, \"Muziek\"), De Vlaamsche Gids, page 289.\nHij vermaande hem zoetjes, sprak van Nikker en Bloedkaros, maar Fikske liet zich niet afbangen, 't kon hem allemaal niet schelen: het manneke, daar diep beneden, trok hem te veel aan.",
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"word": "duivel"
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"ref": "1877, Charles Mackay, The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe: And More Especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and Their Slang, Cant, and Colloquial Dialects, page 265:",
"text": "Davy Jones's Locker [...] A sailor's name for a principal sea-devil, a nikker. - HALLIWELL.",
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{
"ref": "1919, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, The World's Heritage of Epical, Heroic and Romantic Literature, page 12:",
"text": "... and killing sea-nikkers by night. Alone will I combat with this demon, the giant Grendel . . . I shall wrestle for life, foe against foe.",
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{
"ref": "1961, Sietze Buning, A Linguistic Analysis of Words Referring to Monsters in Beowulf, volume 2, page 280:",
"text": "Whether the monster slain is a sea-dragon or a nikker remains a problem. […]",
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"ref": "2018 March 29, Edith Elizabeth Wardale, Revival: Chapters on Old English Literature (1935), Routledge, →ISBN:",
"text": "If the poet has mixed up Danish and English scenery in his mere, and the \"nikkers\" and other monsters have no business in an English lake, they are most certainly there.",
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},
{
"ref": "2022 June 12, Louis Tracy, The Greatest Mysteries of Louis Tracy: 14 Novels in One Edition, DigiCat:",
"text": "\"A nikker is Davy Jones, / Just one more plug, an' a swig at the jug, / An' up with the skull an' bones.\"",
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