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nidders

nidders is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nidder.

Meaning of nidder

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.

Questions about nidders

What is nidders the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Nidders is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nidder.

Words near nidders in the dictionary

  1. niddered
  2. niddering
  3. nidderings
  4. nidderling
  5. nidderlings
  6. nidders
  7. niddick
  8. niddicks
  9. niddicock
  10. niddicocks
  11. niddle-noddle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nidders (page history and authors); nidder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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