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nidderling

語源

Corruption of niddering

名詞

nidderling (複数形 nidderlings)

(archaic) Someone who is weak and cowardly.
- 1889, Walter Besant, To Call Her Mine, page 295:
  There they meet young men who have the true feeling for the sex, and call that man churl and nidderling and pitiful sneak and cur, who would suffer any young woman whom he loves to work if he could order otherwise.
- 1896, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Grey Man, page 25:
  As we began to climb the moor, Sir Thomas motioned me with his hand to ride abreast of him, and to make ready my weapons, which I was not loth to do, for I am no nidderling to be afraid of powder.
- 1935, Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton, English fabric: a study of village life, page 26:
  All at once I realized that I had come as it were into the very hands and mouth of the famous, the notorious, Giant of Cerne Abbas — Baal Durotrigensis, he has been fancifully called — that mysterious figure whose impudent anatomy rouses every sort of surmise and emotion in the archaeologist, the boor, the innocent, the nidderling of towns, the philosopher, and the moralist, each after his kind.

形容詞

nidderling (comparative more nidderling, superlative most nidderling)

(archaic) unmanly.
- 1839, The wizard of Windshaw, page 61:
  ... and dismissing him with a half sullen, half courteous "Goot nicht," disappeared, before Philip had half got to the end of his catalogue of mental execrations, on the "hog of a German brute, that set no more by the life and limb of a born gentleman, than o' one of his own outlandish, nidderling chaps, that never a Christian soul ud go for to look arter, an' the old Barton ud tumble upon the heads o' the whole kit on em."
- 1992, Eluki Bes Shahar, Darktraders, →ISBN, page 203:
  He was starting to get frustrated now, me keeping him from the Long Orbit with this nidderling triviality.

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