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- noun archaic a
coward - adjective
cowardly
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Examples
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"He who can be called niddering shall never be crowned king!"
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"He who can be called niddering shall never be crowned king!"
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Planters or sons of planters, many of them men of fortune, soldiering was a hard task to which they only became reconciled by reflecting that it was "niddering" in gentlemen to assume voluntarily the discharge of duties and then shirk.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor
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Planters or sons of planters, many of them men of fortune, soldiering was a hard task to which they only became reconciled by reflecting that it was "niddering" in gentlemen to assume voluntarily the discharge of duties and then shirk.
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Don't you remember what happened when your father called him 'niddering' last year because Olaf said it was not just to attack the ship of those British men who had been driven to our coast by weather, meaning us no harm? "
The Wanderer's Necklace Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The malison of her muliebrity allows niddering males opportunity for oppugnant vilipend.
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With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
A malison on the poor of spirit. Angry Professor 2008
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With mansuetude compossible with my muliebrity, I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
Archive 2008-10-01 Angry Professor 2008
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Such youths as infringed this rule, incurred the dishonourable epithet of niddering, or worthless, — an epithet of a nature so insulting, that men were known to have slain themselves, rather than endure life under such opprobrium.
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To be spoken to, in that company, by a niddering green from the nursery, and not a thing to be done about it.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
mercy commented on the word niddering
coward; wretch
December 12, 2008
qms commented on the word niddering
The wise practice careful considering,
The timid delay in mere dithering;
But who will not decide
We rightly deride
As weak and a pathetic niddering.
April 8, 2015