"Nick" meaning in English

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        {
          "word": "Nick & Nora"
        },
        {
          "word": "Nixon"
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        {
          "word": "Old Nick"
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        {
          "word": "Saint Nick"
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        {
          "word": "Young Nick's Head"
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          "ref": "2012, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Phoenix, published 2013, →ISBN, pages 14–15:",
          "text": "His name is Nick. I love it. It makes him seem nice, and regular, which he is. When he tells me his name, I say, 'Now, that's a real name.'",
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          "text": "You look at the groypers, you look at Nick Fuentes, you look at people who are by any measure white supremacists and people we would have called the kooky Nazi right, with their Pepe the Frog memes — they all felt very ill at home in Mitt Romney’s Republican Party.",
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        "A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas."
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "roman": "Níkè",
          "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
          "word": "尼克"
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          "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
          "word": "Niĉjo"
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          "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
          "word": "Nico"
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          "lang": "Greek",
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          "roman": "Níkos",
          "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
          "word": "Νίκος"
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          "roman": "Nik",
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          "word": "Νικ"
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          "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
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      "ipa": "/nɪk/"
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      "homophone": "nic"
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    {
      "homophone": "nick"
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      "rhymes": "-ɪk"
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  "word": "Nick"
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      "homophone": "nic"
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      "homophone": "nick"
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      "roman": "Níkè",
      "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
      "word": "尼克"
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      "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
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      "roman": "Níkos",
      "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
      "word": "Νίκος"
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      "sense": "Diminutive of the male given name Nicholas",
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