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▪ 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...
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Jon Richardson
Richardson began Work in Progress shows in late 2013, and in 2014 took his new show Nidiot on the road culminating in a DVD of the same name.
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Many other words in the English language owe their existence to just this type of resegmentation: e.g., nickname, ninny, namby-pamby, nidiot/nidget, nonce
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niddicock
† ˈniddicock Obs. rare. Also nidde-. [Of obscure formation: perh. a fanciful alteration of nidiot.] A fool, a ninny.1586 Hooker Hist. Irel. in Holinshed II. 94/1 They were neuer such fond niddicockes, as to offer anie man a rod to beat their owne tailes. 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. vi. 61 Thou..des...
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nidget
▪ I. nidget, n.1 Now only arch. (ˈnɪdʒɪt) Also 6 nigeot, 7 nigit, nigid, niget, nigget. [var. of nidiot: see note to idiot.] An idiot, a fool. ‘As a modern word, if used, it signifies a trifler’ (Smart).α 1579–80 North Plutarch (1895) II. 50 This made men judge..that he would prove a very foole and ...
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idiot
▪ I. idiot, n. (ˈɪdɪət) Forms: 4 ydyote, 4–5 ydiotte, 4–6 -ot(e, yd-, idyot, 5 idyote, -othe, ydeote, 6 ydeot(te, ideot(t)e, idiotte, 4–7 idiote, 4–9 ideot, 4– idiot. [a. F. idiot (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) = It., Sp., Pg. idiota, ad. L. idiōta uneducated, ignorant person, ad. Gr. ἰδιώτης private pers...
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