niddering

(nidər iŋ)

or nidering

noun

Archaic coward; wretch

Origin: popularized by Sir Walter Scott < error in printed text (1596) by William of Malmesbury, for ME nithing (< ON nithingr), mean person, coward

adjective

Archaic base; cowardly

See niddering in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
Archaic
A cowardly person; a wretch.

Origin:

Origin: Misreading of Middle English nithing

Origin: , from Old English nīthing

Origin: , from Old Norse nīdhingr

Origin: , from nīdh, scorn

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