niderling
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
niderling (plural niderlings)
- Alternative form of nidderling
- 1905, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 22, page 451:
- She stamped her little foot. "Shall I be prey of his, sir? I had rather lie under the sod!" "Coward and niderling he is!" said Bertram.
- 1908, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 41, page 684:
- "It is life to serve," she said, and was busy about his meal. “The life of the niderling. Lordly life is all mad joy. Hath thy maiden heart no longing?”
- 1962, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:
- Who is for jousting? Let come forth to me to-day no weakling or niderling; ay, let none come forth to me but the champions who the enemies of the Faith represent, that I may give them to drink the cup of ignominious punishment.
Adjective[edit]
niderling (comparative more niderling, superlative most niderling)
- Alternative form of nidderling
- 1881, George Etell Sargent, Richard Hunne: a story of old London, page 90:
- "Yet you think not that there are any now within hearing who would be so niderling as to betray what is here spoken in secret?" said Hunne, somewhat taken aback.