niddering
Americannoun
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of niddering
First recorded in 1590–1600; variant of nidering, which is a variant of niding, from nithing, from Old Norse nídhingr “villain, scoundrel, apostate.” The form niddering arose from a misreading of the letter ð (pronounced eth or edh, representing the th- sounds of thin and then ) as an abbreviation for der
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Let every man that is not niddering, whether in a town or out of a town, leave his house and come.”
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
A niddering who flies for his life at the first approach of danger is not fit to wield a sceptre in these lands.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
I am a Saxon, Jarl Hakon, and niddering would I be to sing of my country’s shame.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
I told her plainly; otherwise it would have surely seemed that it was a niddering sort of habit of mine, and unworthy of a warrior in a king's friendly hall.
From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Thou hast called me pestilent, niddering, And weakling: yet I boast me better far Than thou in wit and speech, which things increase The strength of men.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
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