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Nige

Nige proper noun: a diminutive of the male given name Nigel.

Proper noun (1)

Nige

  1. (Australia, UK) A diminutive of the male given name Nigel.
    • No sane person intends to go down a path where Saturdays are spent changing from jeans to a Dothraki pelt-skin costume in the back of a Ford Focus in a Milton Keynes conference centre car-park before meeting their friend Nige (him of the egg-box dragon costume and blow-torch mouth o' fire effect)...2012 June 2, Grace Dent, “Grace Dent on TV: Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2012

Noun

Nige (plural Niges)

  1. (Australia) Synonym of Nigel.
    Synonyms:
    Nigel

Proper noun (2) capitalized: NigE

NigE

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Nigerian English.
    • Many NigE slang expressions have a short life, while others have more staying power, and some, like gist, described earlier, are perhaps colloquial rather than slang.2019, David Jowitt, “Lexis and discourse”, in Nigerian English, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 137

Synonyms of Nige

Forms of Nige

pluralNiges

Origin of Nige

Clipping of Nigel.

Words that rhyme with Nige

Questions about Nige

What does Nige mean?
Nige means a diminutive of the male given name Nigel.
What part of speech is Nige?
Nige can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Nige in the dictionary

  1. Nigam
  2. Nigams
  3. nigari
  4. nigcel
  5. nigcels
  6. Nige
  7. Nigel
  8. Nigel No Friends
  9. Nigel no mates
  10. Nigel no-friends
  11. nigella

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