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  • adjective informal niche; not mainstream but serving a narrow market or audience

Etymologies

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niche +‎ -y

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Examples

  • And, in an industry large enough now to demand niche producers, they are as 'nichey' as they come.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2008

  • And, in an industry large enough now to demand niche producers, they are as 'nichey' as they come.

    Croteaux Vineyards 2007 Merlot "314 Clone" Rose 2008

  • "When you're a nobody like me and you have this small, loyal, 'nichey' fan base, you can do essentially whatever you want," Coulton says.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • "When you're a nobody like me and you have this small, loyal, 'nichey' fan base, you can do essentially whatever you want," Coulton says.

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • In a sea of overly specialized -- OK, very nichey -- companies, the simplest start-up services sometimes stand out.

    These start-ups keep it very simple 2007

  • There are a couple of very industry-specific nichey topics that I'm qualified to write about, and the entries were really inadequate; I submitted additions, and they were deleted for no good reason.

    "Wikipedia's bureaucracy is distinctly, fearsomely awful." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Investors on the other hand can often have a pejorative view of focus - VCs question nichey looking business plans "is this a feature or a company?" and the proverbial "what is the TAM" and "can this thing scale" are often orthogonal to the product marketing challenges of selling version 1.0 products to skeptical customers.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Will Price 2006

  • Investors on the other hand can often have a pejorative view of focus - VCs question nichey looking business plans "is this a feature or a company?" and the proverbial "what is the TAM" and "can this thing scale" are often orthogonal to the product marketing challenges of selling version 1.0 products to skeptical customers.

    Pat your head and rub your tummy Will Price 2005

  • So much less money to engineer/develop something ultra-nichey than to do it on even a niche-level fora GM-sized company.

    Tesla’s Elon Musk Calls NY Times Writer Stross “A Huge Douchebag…And An Idiot” Michael Arrington 2005

  • That's going to relegate it to a very nichey segment,'' Baker said.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

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