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单词 niggledigée
释义

niggledigéen.

Forms: 1700s niggledigée, 1700s niggledygee.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: negligée n.
Etymology: Humorous alteration of negligée n., after niggle v.1
humorous. Obsolete. rare.
= negligée n.In quot. 1790 apparently intended to convey the character's idiosyncrasies of speech.
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1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 29 Lady Betty Wriggle being dressed in what the tuneful part of the streets of London have distinguished in their songs by the polite term of the Niggledigée.
1790 ‘A. Pasquin’ Postscript to New Bath Guide viii. 75 Miss Dy had got on her brown niggledygee.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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