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nim

[nim]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with or without object)

Archaic.

nimmed, nimming

to steal or pilfer.

nim

[nim]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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.

nim

/ ��ɪ�� /

noun

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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51�Թ� History and Origins

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 nim²

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

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of nim¹

C20: perhaps from archaic nim to take, from Old English niman

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They were then looking for nim any moment Edna hastened upstairs by a private stairway that led from the rear of the store to the apartments above.

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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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Nilsson nimble

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