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nidge

nidge verb: to dress the face of (a stone) with a sharp-pointed hammer.

Verb

nidge (third-person singular simple present nidges, present participle nidging, simple past and past participle nidged)

  1. (transitive) To dress the face of (a stone) with a sharp-pointed hammer.

Forms of nidge

third-person singular presentnidges
present participlenidging
past participlenidged
pastnidged

Origin of nidge

From a voiced variant of nitch (“notch”).

Words that rhyme with nidge

4 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about nidge

What does nidge mean?
Nidge means to dress the face of (a stone) with a sharp-pointed hammer.
What part of speech is nidge?
Nidge is a verb.
What is the past tense of nidge?
The past tense of nidge is nidged.

Words near nidge in the dictionary

  1. nidering
  2. niderings
  3. niderling
  4. niderlings
  5. nides
  6. nidge
  7. nidged
  8. nidges
  9. nidget
  10. nidgeting
  11. nidgets

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