to criticize, especially constantly or repeatedly, in a peevish or petty way; carp: to niggle about the fine points of interpretation; preferring to niggle rather than take steps to correct a situation.
2.
to spend too much time and effort on inconsequential details: It's difficult to be meticulous and not niggle.
3.
to work ineffectively; trifle: to niggle with an uninteresting task.
Origin: 1610–20; < Scandinavian; compare Norwegiannigla to be penurious (ultimately < Old Norsehnøggr stingy, cognate with Old Englishhnēaw); cf. niggard
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a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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