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href="/word/Nicholas" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Nicholas " class="crossreference notranslate">Nicholas</a>, and compare <a href="/word/nick" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Nick " class="crossreference notranslate">Nick</a>). Originally it was eaten especially in Westphalia; an earlier German name for it was <span class="foreign notranslate">krankbrot</span>, literally "sick-bread."</p></section><div class="word__firstRecorded--3lZB8">also from<!-- --> <a rel="nofollow" class="word__firstRecorded_time--28qNE" href="/search?sort=a&q=from:c.%201740">c. 1740</a></div></div></div></div><div class="related--32LCi"><h3 class="h3_title" title="words related to pumpernickel">Entries linking to <i>pumpernickel</i></h3><div class="related__details--2kumU"><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of Nicholas" href="/word/Nicholas#etymonline_v_6922">Nicholas<!-- --> <span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>masc. proper name, from French <span class="foreign notranslate">Nicolas</span>, from Latin <span class="foreign notranslate">Nicholaus</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">Nicolaus</span>, from Greek <span class="foreign notranslate">Nikolaos</span>, literally "victory-people," from <span class="foreign notranslate">nikē</span> "victory" (see <a href="/word/Nike" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Nike " class="crossreference notranslate">Nike</a>) + <span class="foreign notranslate">laos</span> "people" (see <a href="/word/lay#etymonline_v_6607" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of lay " class="crossreference notranslate">lay</a> (adj.)). The saint associated with Christmas (died 326 C.E.) was a bishop of Myra in Lycia, patron of scholars, especially schoolboys. A popular given name in England in the Middle Ages (the native form, <span class="foreign notranslate">Nicol</span>, was more common in early Middle English), as was the fem. form <span class="foreign notranslate">Nicola</span>, corresponding to French <span class="foreign notranslate">Nicole</span>. Colloquial <span class="foreign notranslate">Old Nick</span> "the devil" is attested from 1640s (see <a href="/word/nick" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Nick " class="crossreference notranslate">Nick</a>).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of nick" href="/word/nick#etymonline_v_6923">nick<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>"notch, groove, slit," mid-15c., <span class="foreign notranslate">nik</span>, <span class="foreign notranslate">nyke</span>, a word of unknown origin, possibly from a variant of Old French <span class="foreign notranslate">niche</span> (see <a href="/word/niche" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of niche " class="crossreference notranslate">niche</a>).</p> <p><strong><span class="foreign notranslate">Nick of time</span></strong> is attested by 1640s (<span class="foreign notranslate">nick of opportunity</span> is 1610s), possibly from an old custom of recording time as it passed by making notches on a tally stick, though <span class="foreign notranslate">nick</span> in the general sense of "critical moment" is older (1570s, Hanmer, who adds "as commonly we say") than the phrase. <span class="foreign notranslate">Nick</span> (n.) specifically as "notch of a tally" is attested from late 15c.</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8"><div><a class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of nickel" href="/word/nickel#etymonline_v_6924">nickel<!-- --> <!-- -->(n.)<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></a><div class="word__etymology_expand--1s7tE"><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined"><div></div><p>whitish metal element, 1755, the name was coined in 1754 by Swedish mineralogist Axel von Cronstedt (1722-1765) from shortening of Swedish <span class="foreign notranslate">kopparnickel</span> "copper-colored ore" (from which it was first obtained), a half-translation of German <span class="foreign notranslate">Kupfernickel</span>, literally "copper goblin" from <span class="foreign notranslate">Kupfer</span> (see <a href="/word/copper" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of copper " class="crossreference notranslate">copper</a>) + <span class="foreign notranslate">Nickel</span> "goblin, rascal, fool" (a pet form of masc. proper name <span class="foreign notranslate">Nikolaus.</span>)</p> <p>Jacob Grimm suggests this is from the source of <a href="/word/nixie" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of nixie " class="crossreference notranslate">nixie</a> (and compare <a href="/word/pumpernickel" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of pumpernickel " class="crossreference notranslate">pumpernickel</a>). Later German sources (Kluge, etc.) connect the German word to <span class="foreign notranslate">St. Nicholas</span> and the customs surrounding his day in Germany (for which see <a href="/word/Krampus" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Krampus " class="crossreference notranslate">Krampus</a>). Also compare English <span class="foreign notranslate">Old Nick</span> "the devil;" for which see <a href="/word/nick" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of Nick " class="crossreference notranslate">Nick</a>). Yet the earliest uses of the word are only for a fool or a contemptible person, not a supernatural creature. According to OED (2nd ed., 1989), the ore was so called by miners because it looked like copper but yielded none. Compare <span class="foreign notranslate">fool's gold</span> meaning "iron pyrite."</p> <p>The meaning "coin made partly of nickel" is from 1857, when the U.S. introduced one-cent coins made of nickel to replace the old bulky copper pennies. The application to the five-cent piece (originally one part nickel, three parts copper) is from 1883; silver <span class="foreign notranslate">half-dimes</span> served for this in the earlier currency.</p> <p>To <strong><span class="foreign notranslate">nickel-and-dime</span></strong> (someone) "make or keep (someone) poor by accumulation of trifling expenses," is by from 1964 (<span class="foreign notranslate">nickels and dimes</span> "very small amounts of money" is attested from 1893).</p></section></div></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div></div></div><div data-ad-container="true" class="adContainer--6CVz1 vertical" style="margin-top:1em"><span class="adLabel--35hfi">Advertisement</span><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7093273770345366" style="display:block;width:100%" data-ad-slot="8757723469" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins></div><div class="ngram--SmXCf"><h3 class="h3_title" title="Trends of pumpernickel">Trends of <i>pumpernickel</i></h3><div class="ngram__container--NwjaG" style="height:180px"><canvas id="ngram-chart"></canvas></div><div class="ngram__footer--3-9dX">adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. 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(discrepauns, discrepance), from Latin discrepantia "discordance, discrepancy," from discrepantem (nominative discrepans), present participle of discrepare "sound differently, differ," from dis- "apart, off" (</section></a></div><div style="clear:both"></div></div><div class="word--C9UPa word_4pc--2SZw8" style="padding:10px 20px"><div><a class="recommended-word" rel="nofollow" data-recommended-type="complete" style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block" title="Origin and meaning of shambles" href="/word/shambles"><div class="word__name--TTbAA word_thumbnail__name--1khEg" style="font-size:18px">shambles<span class="word_thumbnail__name_icon--2RFFN"><i class="fa fa-chevron-right" style="font-size:16px"></i></span></div><section class="word__defination--2q7ZH undefined word__etymology_limit_line--3DeZW" style="cursor:pointer">"meat or fish market," early 15c., from schamil "table, stall for vending" (c. 1300), from Old English scamol, scomul "stool, footstool" (also figurative); "bench or stall in a market on which goods are exposed for sale, table for vending." 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