Anglo-French nice enters Middle English with spelling preserved and pronunciation adapted to English.
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nice
foolish, simple, wanton; later fastidious or precise
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedAnglo-French · Anglo-French period · foolish simplenice
silly, simple
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Silly or simple expands into foolish, wanton, coy, fastidious, and precise senses.
Borrowed in the fourteenth century.
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Nice — Word HistoryEtymology; First Known Use
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Reports the fourteenth-century English borrowing from Anglo-French.
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