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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈnɪðəd/

形容詞

nithered (comparative more nithered, superlative most nithered)

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Very cold; shrivelled with cold. [from 17th c.]
   • 1985, Sheelagh Kelly, A long way from heaven:

     I did spend a couple o' nights out in the open but I got so bloody nithered I couldn't sleep. I daren't sleep any road, 'cause it were that bloody cold...

   • 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 344:

     ‘You'll be warm enough.’
     ‘I bloody won't. I'm nithered now.’

   • 2003, Howard Peach, Curious Tales of Old North Yorkshire:

     Talk About Nithered! In several severe winters - 1739, 1880, 1963 - the Hardraw waterfall at Hawes had become a giant icicle, just under 100 feet long.

   • 2004, Ken McCoy, Jacky Boy:

     I'm fair nithered, sat sittin' here in this bloody draught.

アナグラム

• in the red