This week’s theme
Words that look one part of speech but are other

This week’s words
constitutional
commensurate
dialectic
curtal
niddering

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Next week’s theme
shoes

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PRONUNCIATION:

(NID-uhr-ing)

MEANING:

noun: A coward or wretch.
adjective: Cowardly.

ETYMOLOGY:

From erroneous reading of Middle English nithing, from Old English nithing, from Old Norse nidhingr, from nidh (scorn). Earliest documented use: 1596.

USAGE:

“Niddering Mary and her flock of timorous lambs at the Securities and Exchange Commission are punishing the wrong folks.”
Malcolm Berko; Crime and Lack of Punishment; Creators Syndicate; Jan 2, 2013.

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