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Kitchen tongs: Can you pass me the nickernackers? When wanting the tongs to serve food. Compare snicker-snacks. Also, knickernackers, knicker-knackers.
Contributor's comments: Always tongs in Tassie. But since Play School came along, there is a tendency to say "snicker-snacks", which is exactly what you do with them - snick (take) a snack, or grab a sausage or whatever.
Contributor's comments: In our house they are refered to as nipnips.