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nigget dial. (ˈnɪdʒɪt) Also nidget. [Origin unknown.] A small insect; spec. one used by a witch or sorcerer as a familiar.1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. 79 Nidget, a little bug. 1915 Times 3 Sept. 5/2 ‘Oh, what are niggets?’ ‘Why those creepy-crawly things that witches keep all over them. She ...
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nidiot
▪ 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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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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