nievie-nievie-nick-nack
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Derived from the first line of a poem recited when playing the game.
Noun[edit]
nievie-nievie-nick-nack (uncountable)
- (archaic) A game of Scottish origin in which one person would try to guess the hand in which another person was holding an object.
- 2010, Neil Baker, G Day: Please God, Get Me Off the Hook, page 261:
- Do you think you could round up four others so we could have a numinous go at it, and nievie-nievie-nick-nack in one another's ear?