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Knicker

Knicker \Knick"er\, n. [D. knikker.] A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble by boys in playing. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.]
--Halliwell.
--Bartlett.

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knicker

Etymology 1 n. (context used attributively as a modifier English) Of or relating to knickers. Etymology 2

n. (context dated dialect UK US English) A small ball of clay, baked hard and oiled, used as a marble in games.

Usage examples of "knicker".

None of the girls punish Libby, although they relish watching her lower her knickers and bend over when her fiance Paul canes her--a rare treat.

She was wearing knickers, which was unusual for her, the silken gusset of which was soaked with self-induced love juices.

Picking up her scrumpled T-shirt from the floor, she then retrieved her knickers from under the bed and started looking for a comb.

There was wine on my knickers, not a lot, and I had to shake them out carefully to make sure there was no glass as well, and, keeping an eye on him struggled back into them, and then all the rest.

So Russet Eaglewood and I enjoyed a lengthy no-strings bonk, and it was all true, not a knicker in sight.

In place of skirts they disported green and glossy silk tights and little gawdy knickers.

In windbreaker and knickers he sticks fast to his bollard, he grinds, before attacking the bottle, goes on grinding the same song as soon as the bottleneck is released, and keeps on blunting his teeth.

She stroked a delicate satin butterfly appliqued on the back of a pair of French knickers, her objections suddenly silenced.

Knicker, to nod, and Boeken, books: plainly meaning that they were great nodders or dozers over books.

In his dreams these charming nymphettes were climbing a ladder on their way to bed, and he was on duty beside the ladder watching them climb, catching glimpses of their slightly soiled knickers as they disappeared into the sky.

Picking up her scrumpled T-shirt from the floor, she then retrieved her knickers from under the bed and started looking for a comb.

In opera hats, bedgowns, bonnets, yellow slickers, periwigs, knickers and snoods they paraded under the sun, some of the "women," seen now at closer range, appearing to be men in women's clothing, as though to correct a deficiency and even up the pairings.

Finally, with great seriousness, Mrs Erskine-Brown asked, 'And tell us, Dr Cogger, if a young woman came to you with a sore throat, can you think of any reason for asking her to lie on a couch and remove her knickers?

The man in knickers, hired probably because he resembled the archetypal Irish immigrant--craggy, handsome, thick reddish hair, square face crosshatched with weathered lines--was holding forth in disappointingly American tones.

He looked vaguely familiar, so she smiled, then went absolutely scarlet as she realized the last time she'd seen him she'd been in her bra and knickers, bopping in the rain.