- nigget
- 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. [1913 Webster]
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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. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
nigeot — 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. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
idiot — The word is sometimes used alone in a semi exclamatory way, especially when someone has just said something foolish. It is also frequent as ‘you idiot’ and in expanded forms. Thus, an uncle addresses his nephew in Mariana, by Monica Dickens,… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
