Definitions
A silvery metal or a five-cent coin in North America.
Word origin
Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.
Used in a sentence
“That is just objectively terrifying regardless of contexts! He looks like if a nickel did cocaine!”
“Many types of nickels were used in psychological warfare. Classified according to general purpose, there were strategic and tactical leaflets.”
“Let me give you the nickel tour of the office.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Five-cent coin”6 letters
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