NIDGERY NOUN a small or worthless object; a trifle; a knickknack; a piece of foolery ...1611 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from French nigerie (a trifle) from niger (to trifle or waste time) + -ery FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1611 - Nigeries f. nidgeries, fopperies, fooleries, trifles, nifles, friulous bables From: A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues - Randle Cotgrave EXAMPLE "...he never falters or fambles for a word (a bon bec) but will invent one rather than cheat you of your allowance. Ask him the meaning of so light a word as Bagatelle, and he floods you with - "trifle, trash, bawble, peppercorn, nidgeries, feather, punctilio, pimping-thing, piddling-business, fiddle-faddle, stuff, toy, fiddle-stick, fig, foolery, fingle-fangle, flim-flam, kickshaw, trinket..." From: Literature: An International Gazette of Criticism New York, Friday, May 19, 1899 in: Humor of Dictionaries, by Cecil Headlam
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