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Etymology
Compare French nigaud (“a booby, fool”), Old French niger (“to play the fool”).
Noun
nidget (plural nidgets)
- (obsolete) A fool or idiot.
1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, , London: G E for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:in signification it signifieth, as it seemeth, no more than abject, base-minded, falſe-hearted, coward or nidget
- (obsolete) A coward.
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