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Nim
Definitions
- 1 A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps. uncountable
- 2 Alternative form of neem (“Indian tree”). alt-of, alternative
- 3 game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table wordnet
- 1 To take or seize. obsolete, transitive
"Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; […] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup."
- 2 To filch, steal, pilfer. archaic, slang, transitive
"They'll question Mars, and, by his look, Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;"
- 3 To walk with short, quick strides; trip along. UK, dialectal, intransitive
"The old lady does nim along. 1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes (quoting Irene Sutcliffe), page 111: Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon,"
Etymology
From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian nieme (“to take”), West Frisian nimme (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), Low German nehmen (“to take”), German nehmen (“to take”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”). Related to numb and nimble.
From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian nieme (“to take”), West Frisian nimme (“to take”), Dutch nemen (“to take”), Low German nehmen (“to take”), German nehmen (“to take”), Danish nemme (“to learn, grasp”). Related to numb and nimble.
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