Niddering

Quick meaning: Niddering is a noun meaning (archaic) Synonym of nithing (“a coward, a dastard; a wretch”).

Meaning

(archaic) Synonym of nithing (“a coward, a dastard; a wretch”).

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Synonym of nithing (“cowardly, dastardly; notoriously evil or wicked; infamous”).

Example Sentences

[O]n the bodies of his fallen foes he kicked the gray road dust, and spat on them and named them churls and nidderings and unfit wearers of the mail of men of war.

Though thou art my son, I say this, that, if thou workest ill to Eric when he is over sea, thou shalt rightly learn the weight of Whitefire: it is a niddering deed to plot against an absent man.

I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.

Word Forms

• nidderings
• nidering

Synonyms for niddering

Depending on context, synonyms include nithing, ill-famed, nidering, disreputable, infamous, nefarious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nidering, niding, nithing, nither, niggardise, witherling.

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