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Definition: Niggler |
NigglerNoun1. Someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: NigglerSynonym: carper (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "niggler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | muggezifter (hair-splitter, nit-picker), haarklover (hair-splitter, nit-picker). (various references) | |
Esperanto | harfendemulo (hair-splitter, nit-picker), ĉikanulo (hair-splitter, nit-picker). (various references) | |
German | nörgler (Carper, caviler, grumbler, moaner, nag, nagger, squealers), kleinigkeitskrämer (nit-picker, pedant, stickler). (various references) | |
Italian | pignolo (fastidious person, finicking, finicky, niggling, pedant, pedantic), pedante (bookish, niggling, pedant, pedantic, prig, schoolmarmish, stickler). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igglernay.(various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vragolan (imp, monkey, wag). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "niggler": nigglers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "niggler": sniggler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "niggler": snigglers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "niggler" (pronounced 'Nig"gler'): Angler, Antiguggler, Boggler, Brangler, Bugler, Bungler, Commingler, Dangler, Giggler, haggler, Higgler, juggler, Mingler, Ogler, shingler, smuggler, Spangler, straggler, strangler, struggler, Wiggler, Wrangler, Wriggler. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ginger, leggin, linger, niggle. | |
-2 letters: ingle, liger, liner, reign, renig. | |
-3 letters: gien, girl, girn, gleg, glen, grig, grin, lien, lier, line, ling, lire, rein, riel, rile, ring. | |
-4 letters: egg, eng, erg, ern, gel, gen, gie, gig, gin, ire, leg, lei, lie, lin, nil, reg, rei, rig, rin. | |
-5 letters: el, en, er, in, li, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: ganglier, gingerly, grueling, lagering, nigglers, regaling, regluing, sniggler. | |
+2 letters: enlarging, glowering, graveling, greenling, groveling, gruelings, gruelling, laagering, lingering, regilding, reglazing, reglowing, ridgeling, snigglers. | |
+3 letters: begirdling, engirdling, engrailing, fingerling, gallerying, glimmering, glistering, glittering, gravelling, greenlings, grovelling, gruelingly, gruellings, gunslinger, leaguering, leveraging, lightering, realigning, regelating, reglossing, regulating, rejuggling, relegating, relighting, repledging, replunging, ridgelings. | |
+4 letters: bedraggling, beglamoring, degradingly, embrangling, filagreeing, filigreeing, fingerlings, glaringness, glengarries, glimmerings, grovelingly, gunslingers, lingeringly, malingering, overgilding, privileging, reshingling. | |
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