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nickums

nickums is the plural of nickum.

Meaning of nickum

Noun

nickum (plural nickums)

  1. (Scotland) A mischievous person; a scallywag.
    • Folk said he fair was a nickum, that loon, young Ewan Tavendale that came form the Manse […]1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 451

Questions about nickums

What is nickums the plural of?
Nickums is the plural of nickum.

Words near nickums in the dictionary

  1. nickstick
  2. nicksticks
  3. nickum
  4. nickumpoop
  5. nickumpoops
  6. nickums
  7. Nicky
  8. nicky nacky noo
  9. nicky nacky noos
  10. nicky-nicky-nine-doors
  11. nicky-tam

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