Nidderling

Quick meaning: Nidderling is a noun meaning (archaic) Someone who is weak and cowardly.

Meaning

(archaic) Someone who is weak and cowardly.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Unmanly.

Example Sentences

He was starting to get frustrated now, me keeping him from the Long Orbit with this nidderling triviality.

As we began to climb the moor, Sir Thomas motioned me with his hand to ride abreast of him, and to make ready my weapons, which I was not loth to do, for I am no nidderling to be afraid of powder.

There they meet young men who have the true feeling for the sex, and call that man churl and nidderling and pitiful sneak and cur, who would suffer any young woman whom he loves to work if he could order otherwise.

All at once I realized that I had come as it were into the very hands and mouth of the famous, the notorious, Giant of Cerne Abbas — Baal Durotrigensis, he has been fancifully called — that mysterious figure whose impudent anatomy rouses every sort of surmise and emotion in the archaeologist, the boor, the innocent, the nidderling of towns, the philosopher, and the moralist, each after his kind.

Word Forms

• nidderlings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include niderling, nidget, nerdling, wormling, lizard, lidderon.

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