niddering

• Get this - niddering comes from a big old mistake that came down from the ages, a misreading of the Middle English nithing, derived from the Old English nīthing and Old Norse nīdhingr.
• The J. Bush McCain campaign is utterly shameless in its pursuit of the highest office in the land and with this latest outrage, has - yet again - demonstrated that the niddering* fool that McCain has become is unfit for that honor. —  Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories
• Would anybody really wish to get rid of terms like mansuetude (an almost onomatopoeic word for gentleness) or niddering (a jellyish synonym for cowardly)? —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
• "There's an MP here called Vince Cable who has adopted 'niddering,' which means cowardly," said Ms. Higgleton. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
• Planters or sons of planters, many of them men of fortune, soldiering was a hard task to which they only became reconciled by reflecting that it was "niddering" in gentlemen to assume voluntarily the discharge of duties and then shirk. —  Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

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