Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who niggles or trifles.
  • noun One who is clever and dexterous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who niggles.

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  • noun colloquial One who niggles; a constant critic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way

Etymologies

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niggle +‎ -er

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Examples

  • Each writer has his method; Scott was no stipples or niggler, but, as we shall see later, he often altered much in his proof-sheets.

    Waverley 2004

  • There is here an objection which will arise in the mind of every niggler and boggler who has in the past very properly been covered with ridicule and become the butt of the waiters and stable-yard, which is, that if one is ignorant of the local sport, there is an end to the business.

    On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • As for the potterer and the niggler, the men and women whose stroke goes no farther back than their knuckles, I may frankly say that charcoal is not for them.

    Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876

  • Each writer has his method; Scott was no stipples or niggler, but, as we shall see later, he often altered much in his proof-sheets.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • The US is bound to ask about the progress of the civil liability for nuclear damage bill, another niggler among several trade and commerce issues.

    The Times of India 2010

  • We know he's a niggling sniggerer, so I guess that also makes him a sniggering niggler.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED pooroldtoby 2010

  • The US is bound to ask about the progress of the civil liability for nuclear damage bill, another niggler among several trade and commerce issues.

    The Times of India 2010

  • The US is bound to ask about the progress of the civil liability for nuclear damage bill, another niggler among several trade and commerce issues.

    The Times of India 2010

  • But be careful, the overwhelmingly compelling evidence suggests that Mr. Davis is a niggler.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2009

  • But be careful, the overwhelmingly compelling evidence suggests that Mr. Davis is a niggler.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2009

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