"nicky-tam" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From knickerbockers (due to the shape that the trouser legs adopt) + taum (a cord).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nicky-tams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "nicky-tam (plural nicky-tams)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Use for ditching."
        },
        {
          "text": "A Pair of Nicky-Tams Folk song."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pair of straps or pieces of string tied around the leg below the knee to raise trousers above the level of farmyard dirt."
      ],
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Keeping rats out."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The same to prevent the ingress of dust and vermin up the trouser leg."
      ],
      "id": "en-nicky-tam-en-noun-fd6Ia6Bb"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Interview with Sir Nicky Tam in the Aberdeen Voice."
        },
        {
          "text": "See also \"A Pair of Nicky-Tams\"."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A simpleton or country yokel."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) A simpleton or country yokel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nicky-tam"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From knickerbockers (due to the shape that the trouser legs adopt) + taum (a cord).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nicky-tams",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "nicky-tam (plural nicky-tams)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Use for ditching."
        },
        {
          "text": "A Pair of Nicky-Tams Folk song."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pair of straps or pieces of string tied around the leg below the knee to raise trousers above the level of farmyard dirt."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Keeping rats out."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The same to prevent the ingress of dust and vermin up the trouser leg."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Interview with Sir Nicky Tam in the Aberdeen Voice."
        },
        {
          "text": "See also \"A Pair of Nicky-Tams\"."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A simpleton or country yokel."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) A simpleton or country yokel."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "nicky-tam"
}