Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A noodle; a fool; an Idiot.
  • noun A triangular horse-hoe, used in Kent and Sussex, chiefly in cultivating hops.
  • To cultivate with a nidget.

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

  • noun obsolete A fool; an idiot, a coward.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A fool or idiot; a coward.

Etymologies

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Compare French nigaud a boody, fool, Old French niger to play the fool.

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  • A fool; an idiot, a coward.

    October 14, 2008

  • "The person who fetches the midwife". (via NPR's Says You)

    August 6, 2011

  • Possibly also nidgit.

    July 27, 2021