nidderingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈnɪdəɹɪŋ/, /ˈnɪdɹɪŋ/
• ハイフネーション: nid‧der‧ing

名詞

niddering (plural nidderings)

1. (archaic) Synonym of nithing (“a coward, a dastard; a wretch”).
   • 1948, Seabury Quinn, “The Road to Bethlehem”, in Roads, Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, →OCLC, page 26; reprinted Mohegan Lake, N.Y.: Red Jacket Press, 2005, →ISBN, page 26:

     [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.

別の表記

• nidering

形容詞

niddering (comparative more niddering, superlative most niddering)

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

   Synonyms: ill-famed, nidering, nithing; see also Thesaurus:notorious

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 302:

     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.

   • 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric was Outlawed and Sailed A-viking”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 121:

     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.

別の表記

• nidering

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