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Adjective

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nigher

  1. (archaic) comparative form of nigh: more nigh
    • 1847, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre:
      It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart.

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nigher (third-person singular simple present nighers, present participle nighering, simple past and past participle nighered)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of nicker (to neigh)

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Yola

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nigher

  1. Alternative form of neicher
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 84:
      Huck nigher; y'art scuddeen; fartoo zo hachee?
      Come nearer; you're rubbing your back; why so ill tempered?

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84