▪ I. † ˈnidiot1
obs. f. idiot. (Cf. nidget n.1)
| 1534 More Comf. agst. Trib. iii. Wks. 1250/2 These folke as are verye nydeote fooles. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretary ii. (1595) 47 After all these sporting deuises, he is but a Nideote. 1613 Dodecahedron of Fortune 5 This doting nidiot by his foolish desart Shall of his faire love at all have no part. |
▪ II. † ˈnidiot2 Obs. rare—1.
(See quot. and cf. nigget.)
| 1713 Derham Phys.-Theol. 190 note, One of the smallest, if not the very smallest of all the Gnat kind... Among us in Essex, they are called Nidiots, by Mouffet, Midges. |