NIDGET

  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

NIDGET

Definition: NIDGET

NIDGET

Noun

1. A fool; an idiot, a coward.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Nidget \Nidg"et\, noun. [Written also nigget, nigeot.]. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: NIDGET

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cowardice

Coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; dunghill cock; coistril, milksop, white liver, lily liver, nidget, one that cannot say " bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: NIDGET

Etymologies containing "NIDGET": Nidgery. (references)

Top     

Derivations: NIDGET

Derivations

Words beginning with "NIDGET": nidgets. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Rhyming with "NIDGET"

Words rhyming with "NIDGET" (pronounced 'Nidg"et'): Acquiet, Anet, Armet, Becket, Blushet, Brocket, Budget, Bushet, Cachet, Chewet, Chuet, Claret, Clicket, Comet, Crevet, Crewet, Crocket, Crownet, Cruet, Crumpet, Flacket, Flasket, freshet, grivet, HATCHET, Latchet, Levet, locket, Malet, midget, Miscovet, Moonet, Nymphet, Owlet, Piet, Placket, Planchet, Planet, Plashet, Pledget, Poet, Poket, Popet, Porket, Pricket, Privet, Prophet, Puet, Purset, Pyet. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: NIDGET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tinged.

Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-t"

-1 letter: deign, dinge, teind, tined, tinge.

-2 letters: deni, dent, diet, dine, ding, dint, dite, edit, gent, gied, gien, nide, nite, tend, tide, tied, tine, ting.

-3 letters: den, die, dig, din, dit, end, eng, ged, gen, get, gid, gie, gin, git, net, nit, ted, teg, ten, tie, tin.

-4 letters: de, ed, en, et, id, in, it.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-t"
 

+1 letter: denting, dieting, editing, glinted, ignited, ingoted, nidgets, tedding, tending, tingled, twinged.

 

+2 letters: betiding, debating, debiting, debuting, delating, deleting, demoting, denoting, deputing, derating, detoxing, devoting, diligent, dingiest, duetting, dungiest, enditing, gradient, ideating, indagate, indigent, ingested, knighted, redating, sedating, signeted, steading, stringed, treading, trending, ungifted, untinged.

 

+3 letters: advecting, adverting, astringed, attending, benighted, budgeting, coediting, crediting, decanting, decocting, deducting, defatting, defeating, defecting, deflating, degusting, dehorting, dejecting, delisting, demasting, dementing, demitting, denigrate, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, deratting, desalting, deserting, designate, desisting, despiting, destining, detaching, detailing, detaining, detecting, deterging, deterring, detesting, deticking, detouring, detruding, devesting, deviating, digenetic, digesting, digestion, dignities, directing, distingue, dithering, divergent, diverting, divesting, docketing, educating, extending, extruding, fidgeting, geminated, glistened, gradients, gratineed, indagated, indagates, indenting, indigents, indulgent, ingrafted, integrand, intending, intrigued, lightened, longitude, magnitude, mediating, navigated, negatived, negritude, nightside, outdesign, outgained, paginated, pigmented, predating, redacting, redingote, reediting, reignited, retarding, steadings, steadying, tendering, threading, tightened, tragedian, treadling, treddling, tweedling, undergirt, unsighted, vignetted.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: NIDGET


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 49 44 47 45 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ..    -..    --.    .    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001001 01000100 01000111 01000101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#73 &#68 &#71 &#69 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0049 0044 0047 0045 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

484338413954

Top     



INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.