Pronounced: uh-ERS, verb
Notes: It looks like a word I know, but I didn’t know it
Last word
The word niddering means “a coward”
First usage
Our word came into English around 1600 (it is considered archaic today)
Background / Comments
As I noted, the word looks like a verb. It is a variant of nidering, which came from nithing, which came from Old Norse nidhingr (villian, scoundrel, apostate). Our word came about as misreading of the Norse letter for “th” (both as in thin or then) as an abbreviation for “der”.
