nidget

English

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Etymology

Compare French nigaud (“a booby, fool”), Old French niger (“to play the fool”).

Noun

nidget (plural nidgets)

  1. (obsolete) A fool or idiot; a coward.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nidget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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