niderling

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of nidderling.

   “She stamped her little foot. "Shall I be prey of his, sir? I had rather lie under the sod!" "Coward and niderling he is!" said Bertram.”

   “"It is life to serve," she said, and was busy about his meal. “The life of the niderling. Lordly life is all mad joy. Hath thy maiden heart no longing?””

   “Who is for jousting? Let come forth to me to-day no weakling or niderling; ay, let none come forth to me but the champions who the enemies of the Faith represent, that I may give them to drink the cup of ignominious punishment.”

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of nidderling.

   “"Yet you think not that there are any now within hearing who would be so niderling as to betray what is here spoken in secret?" said Hunne, somewhat taken aback.”