• (RP, GA) IPA: /ˈnɪdəɹɪŋ/, /ˈnɪdɹɪŋ/

niddering (plural nidderings)

1. (archaic) Synonym of nithing#English|nithing (“a coward, a dastard; a wretch”)

niddering

1. (archaic) Synonym of nithing#English|nithing (“cowardly, dastardly; notoriously evil#Adjective|evil or wicked; infamous”)
   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter XII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662 ↗, page 302 ↗:

     I require of thee, as a man of thy word, on pain of being held faithless, man-sworn, and nidering [footnote: Infamous], to forgive and to receive to thy paternal affection the good knight, Wilfrid of Ivanhoe.

   • 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Eric was Outlawed and Sailed A-viking”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 935241280 ↗, page 121 ↗:

     Though thou art my son, I say this, that, if thou workest ill to Eric when he is over sea, thou shalt rightly learn the weight of Whitefire: it is a niddering deed to plot against an absent man.