英和和英

名詞

niderling (複数形 niderlings)

1. Alternative form of nidderling
   • 1905, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 22, page 451:

     She stamped her little foot. "Shall I be prey of his, sir? I had rather lie under the sod!" "Coward and niderling he is!" said Bertram.

   • 1908, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 41, page 684:

     "It is life to serve," she said, and was busy about his meal. “The life of the niderling. Lordly life is all mad joy. Hath thy maiden heart no longing?”

   • 1962, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Who is for jousting? Let come forth to me to-day no weakling or niderling; ay, let none come forth to me but the champions who the enemies of the Faith represent, that I may give them to drink the cup of ignominious punishment.