Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Synonym of dweeb (“boring or socially inept person”). · An Englishman.
name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA male given name from Latin, of mostly British usage. · A small mining town in Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng province, South Africa.
English form of Latin Nigellus, from nigellus (“slightly black”), diminutive of niger (“black”), used in the Middle Ages to Latinize Norman Néel and Old Irish Níall, from which the former is derived via Old Norse Njáll. Compare Neil.
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