Nickel
[ˈnɪkəl]Meaning
a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas
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Nickel is one of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas. The same word is also the English name of the chemical element nickel, whose name comes from a mischievous sprite of German miner mythology, Nickel.
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