Meaning of nidderling | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who is weak and cowardly.

archaic

Examples

“There they meet young men who have the true feeling for the sex, and call that man churl and nidderling and pitiful sneak and cur, who would suffer any young woman whom he loves to work if he could order otherwise.”

“As we began to climb the moor, Sir Thomas motioned me with his hand to ride abreast of him, and to make ready my weapons, which I was not loth to do, for I am no nidderling to be afraid of powder.”

“All at once I realized that I had come as it were into the very hands and mouth of the famous, the notorious, Giant of Cerne Abbas — Baal Durotrigensis, he has been fancifully called — that mysterious figure whose impudent anatomy rouses every sort of surmise and emotion in the archaeologist, the boor, the innocent, the nidderling of towns, the philosopher, and the moralist, each after his kind.”

CEFR level