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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Niggle \Nig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Niggled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Niggling}.] [Dim. of Prov. E. nig to clip money; cf also
Prov. E. nig a small piece.]
To trifle with to deceive; to mock. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Niggling \Nig"gling\, n.
Finicky or pottering work specif. (Fine Arts), minute and
very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like
esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
niggling
adj : (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling
sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are
lilliputian compared with those of countries that are
at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over
niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises";
"piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free
meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a
picayune infraction" [syn: {fiddling}, {footling}, {lilliputian},
{little}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {picayune},
{trivial}]
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