nidget
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Compare French nigaud (“a booby, fool”), Old French niger (“to play the fool”).
Noun edit
nidget (plural nidgets)
- (obsolete) A fool or idiot.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
- in signification it signifieth, as it seemeth, no more than abject, base-minded, falſe-hearted, coward or nidget
- (obsolete) A coward.
References edit
- “nidget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.