Meaning of nithered | Babel Free

Definitions

Very cold; shrivelled with cold.

Northern-England, Scotland

Examples

“I did spend a couple o' nights out in the open but I got so bloody nithered I couldn't sleep. I daren't sleep any road, 'cause it were that bloody cold...”

“‘You'll be warm enough.’ ‘I bloody won't. I'm nithered now.’”

“Talk About Nithered! In several severe winters - 1739, 1880, 1963 - the Hardraw waterfall at Hawes had become a giant icicle, just under 100 feet long.”

“I'm fair nithered, sat sittin' here in this bloody draught.”

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