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Nidget

Nidget \Nidg"et\, n. [Written also nigget, nigeot.] [Cf. F. nigaud a booby, fool, OF. niger to play the fool.] A fool; an idiot, a coward. [Obs.]
--Camden.

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nidget

n. (context obsolete English) A fool or idiot; a coward.

Usage examples of "nidget".

While Evelyn might have realized the emptiness of this dire threat, Nidget did not.

Tess followed, flanked by Evelyn and Nidget, both of whom had apparently constituted themselves her devout admirers.

The dowager duchess chortled and her sharp eyes moved to Tess, who was standing near the doorway, one arm around Evelyn, who was leaning blissfully against her good side, and Nidget at her feet.

Tess, who still wore her old black pelisse, and who had in her encounter with Nidget lost all her hairpins so that her pale curls were as usual in wild disarray, certainly lacked the least appearance of a gentlewoman.

Nor, though Tess did not consider it, had young Evelyn and the faithful Nidget been privileged to join the expedition.

He looked unusually neat in a frilled shirt and nankeens, and even Nidget, at his heels, had been haphazardly groomed.

Since Evelyn was equally preoccupied, rapt upon a stunning display of equestrian showmanship, it was not surprising that Nidget should have found it easy to slip away.

Evelyn, who was waiting impatiently on the walkway, the faithful Nidget at his heels.

Evelyn and Nidget, neither of whom could be expected to sleep through such excitement, had retired gratefully to her bed.

A brief altercation ensued when it transpired that Nidget would not be permitted inside, but at length he was sent off in the barouche, and the others crossed the threshold.