释义 |
ˈnicky, n.1 dial. Also nickee. (See quots.)
1854Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XV. ii. 414 The inferior [wood] going in sale faggots, bush faggots, and nickees, or small faggots used in lighting fires. 1882W. Barnes in Macm. Mag. Mar. 418 When he wanted to chop up some small wood for nickies, as we call them in the West—some little bundles of wood for lighting fires. |