英和和英

発音

• (Received 発音, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɪdəɹɪŋ/, /ˈnɪdɹɪŋ/
• ハイフネーション: nid‧der‧ing

名詞

niddering (複数形 nidderings)

1. (archaic) Synonym of nithing (“a coward, a dastard; a wretch”)
   • 1948, Seabury Quinn, “The Road to Bethlehem”, in Roads, Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, OCLC 3637876, page 26; reprinted Mohegan Lake, N.Y.: Red Jacket Press, 2005, →ISBN, page 26:

     [O]n the bodies of his fallen foes he kicked the gray road dust, and spat on them and named them churls and nidderings and unfit wearers of the mail of men of war.

別の表記

• nidering

形容詞

niddering (comparative more niddering, superlative most niddering)

1. (archaic) Synonym of nithing (“cowardly, dastardly; notoriously evil または wicked; infamous”)
   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662, page 302:

     I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.

   • 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric was Outlawed and Sailed A-viking”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 935241280, page 121:

     Though thou art my son, I say this, that, if thou workest ill to Eric when he is over sea, thou shalt rightly learn the weight of Whitefire: it is a niddering deed to plot against an absent man.

別の表記

• nidering

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