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niggling
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Niggling
(gcide) | Niggling \Nig"gling\, a.
1. petty, trivial, or inconsequential.
[PJC]
2. Excessively demanding of time or attention; as, niggling
little details.
[PJC] |
niggling
(gcide) | niggling \nig"gling\, n.
Finicky or pottering work; specif. (Fine Arts), Minute and
very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like,
esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.
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Niggling
(gcide) | Niggle \Nig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Niggled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Niggling.] [Dim. of Prov. E. nig to clip money; cf. also
Prov. E. nig a small piece.]
To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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niggling
(wn) | niggling
adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at
war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over
niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises";
"piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal
may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune
infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial] |
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Niggling
(gcide) | Niggling \Nig"gling\, a.
1. petty, trivial, or inconsequential.
[PJC]
2. Excessively demanding of time or attention; as, niggling
little details.
[PJC]niggling \nig"gling\, n.
Finicky or pottering work; specif. (Fine Arts), Minute and
very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like,
esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Niggle \Nig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Niggled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Niggling.] [Dim. of Prov. E. nig to clip money; cf. also
Prov. E. nig a small piece.]
To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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Niggling
(gcide) | Niggling \Nig"gling\, a.
1. petty, trivial, or inconsequential.
[PJC]
2. Excessively demanding of time or attention; as, niggling
little details.
[PJC]niggling \nig"gling\, n.
Finicky or pottering work; specif. (Fine Arts), Minute and
very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like,
esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Niggle \Nig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Niggled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Niggling.] [Dim. of Prov. E. nig to clip money; cf. also
Prov. E. nig a small piece.]
To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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Sniggling
(gcide) | Sniggle \Snig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniggled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Sniggling.] [See Snig a kind of eel.]
To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their
holes or hiding places. --Walton.
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