nim

¹ American  

[nim] / nɪm /

verb (used with or without object)

Archaic.

nimmed, nimming

1. to steal or pilfer.

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nim ² American  

[nim] / nɪm /

noun

1. a game in which two players alternate in drawing counters, pennies, or the like, from a set of 12 arranged in three rows of 3, 4, and 5 counters, respectively, the object being to draw the last counter, or, sometimes, to avoid drawing it.

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nim British  

/ nɪm /

noun

1. a game in which two players alternately remove one or more small items, such as matchsticks, from one of several rows or piles, the object being to take (or avoid taking) the last item remaining on the table

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Etymology

Origin of nim¹

before 900; Middle English nimen, Old English niman, cognate with German nehmen, Old Norse nema, Gothic niman to take; numb

Origin of nim¹

First recorded in 1900–05; special use of nim ¹

Example Sentences

C. L. A. B. I. B. reads nim for bim in line 2.

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One night, when the cavalcade was halted in the very village whence Nur Mahal had turned northwards with such quick vagary, an owl hooted from the depths of a nim tree.

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Now, you hemp-strings, had you no time to nim us, but when we were upon our visits?

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First go to the ladies, nim, nim, nim!

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This is the way the ladies go— Nim, nim, nim.

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