Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wicked man.
- Wicked; mean; sparing: parsimonious.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
niding .
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- noun a
coward ,dastard ,wretch
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have called her nithing and put her from my mind. '
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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It is not likely that this selfish and unwarlike pedant -- a "nithing", as they probably called him -- had ever been aught but a most unwelcome necessity to the lion-hearted Ostrogoths, and for all but the families and friends of the three slain noblemen, the imprisonment and the permitted murder of his benefactress must have deepened dislike into horror.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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Better to be seen as an angry black man than a weak, ineffectual nithing.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Thursday Night Open Thread 2010
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June 29th, 2009 11: 55 am ET it, s funny to see all the news on your sight, yet nithing about obama 'judge being overrulled? why?
Business as usual for embattled South Carolina governor 2009
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Do you think Jeff Jacoby is a Nazi nithing or a Holocaust denier?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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Do you think Jeff Jacoby is a Nazi nithing or a Holocaust denier?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism 2010
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I know that Sabin does not think of my stepmother as nithing.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Need-wrack and grim nithing, of night-bales the greatest.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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When the Irish men saw, that the Britons were in conflict, they fought fiercely, and nevertheless they fell; they called on their king: "Where art thou, nithing! why wilt thou not come hither? thou lettest us here be destroyed; -- and Pascent, thy comrade, saw us fall here; -- come ye to us to help, with great strength!"
Roman de Brut. English Layamon
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He lay hidden near the gate till he saw my father come, in the dusk, from hunting, when he fell upon him and slew him, and forced an entrance -- the nithing!
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893
whichbe commented on the word nithing
Infamous person; abject coward; traitor. (from Phrontistery)
May 24, 2008