Nickiness
Nickeliness (also: Nickligkeit ; mostly used in the plural ; Nickel = Aquarius , Kobold , translated: stubborn, wanton person ) describes a stubborn, willfully reckless character trait or an action that can be traced back to it.
Sports
In sport, mainly in football, the term is used to describe a style of play in which the opponent is covered with small fouls that are in the border area of the infraction. If one speaks of a rough football encounter, it does not have to have included many hard fouls, but can also have been characterized by numerous nicknames.
Web links
- Nickeliness , language corner in the Echo newspapers, January 22, 2008