Nithing
Origin
From Middle English nīthing ("wretch, coward; good-for-nothing; a stingy or misery person"), from Old English nīþing ("wretch, villain, coward, outlaw")
Full definition of nithing
Noun
nithing
(plural nithings)- a coward, dastard, wretch
- 1903 , Ottilie A. Liljencrantz , The Ward of King Canute Chapter , To get gold to buy peace, they will sell their children into slavery. Sooner than look our swords in the face, they will yield us their daughters to be our thralls! Oath-breakers, nithings! Will you be beaten by such? Vikings, Odinmen, forward!
- 1905 , George Burton Adams , The History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) Chapter , For this siege the king again appealed to the country and called for the help of all under the old Saxon penalty of the disgraceful name of "nithing."
- , 2010-05-23, Ilya Somin, Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism, Do victims of the Holocaust and anti-Judaism care about how logical and unmalicious Jacoby's motives are?
Do you think Jeff Jacoby is a Nazi nithing or a Holocaust denier?