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nidder

nidder verb: to keep down or under.

Verb

nidder (third-person singular simple present nidders, present participle niddering, simple past and past participle niddered)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) To keep down or under.
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To press hard upon; straiten (applied to bounds).
  3. (Scotland, transitive) To pinch or starve with cold or hunger; stunt in growth.
  4. (Scotland, transitive) To harass; grill; plague; annoy.

Forms of nidder

third-person singular presentnidders
present participleniddering
past participleniddered
pastniddered

Origin of nidder

From a dialectal variant of nither, nether.

Questions about nidder

What does nidder mean?
Nidder means to keep down or under.
What part of speech is nidder?
Nidder is a verb.
What is the past tense of nidder?
The past tense of nidder is niddered.

Words near nidder in the dictionary

  1. nidda
  2. niddah
  3. niddahs
  4. Niddam
  5. niddas
  6. nidder
  7. Nidderdale
  8. niddered
  9. niddering
  10. nidderings
  11. nidderling

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