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off. depart, go or run off or away, take off, take to one's
heels, show a clean pair of heels, beat a (hasty) retreat,
Colloq scarper, make tracks, beat it: The cops were coming so I
nicked off.
nickname n. 1 pet name, sobriquet, epithet, agnomen, Colloq moniker or
monicker, handle: Her real name is Josephine, but her nickname
is Dusty. 2 diminutive: A common nickname for Terence is
Terry.
nifty adj. 1 smart, stylish, modish, chic, spruce: I borrowed a
nifty outfit from Grandma for the flapper's costume ball. 2
healthy, in good form, spry, energetic, agile, quick: I'm not
as nifty as I was in 1950. 3 excellent, neat, great, splendid,
fine, clever, skilful, apt, suitable: Having a picnic was a
nifty idea. That was as nifty a bit of bargaining as I 've ever
seen. 4 satisfactory, satisfying, good, profitable, substantial,
considerable: He made a nifty profit on the sale of his house
in Chelsea.
niggle v. find fault, nag, carp, fuss, cavil, criticize; complain,
Colloq grouse, Slang bitch, US kvetch: I do wish she would stop
niggling when we cannot do anything about the situation.
niggling adj. 1 irritating, worrying, worrisome, irksome, vexing,
vexatious, annoying, troublesome: There are a few niggling
matters that I must see my accountant about. 2 petty, nugatory,
trifling, trivial, fussy, insignificant, unimportant,
inconsequential, frivolous, Colloq piddling, nit-picking, US and
Canadian picayune: Bill always ignores the core of a problem
and occupies himself with the niggling details.
night n. 1 (Stygian or Cimmerian) dark or darkness or blackness or
gloom; night-time, shades of night, Formal tenebrosity or
tenebrousness or tenebriousness: The strange creature slunk off
into the night. 2 nightfall, gloaming, twilight, dusk,
eventide, evening, evensong, edge of night, sunset, sundown, end
of day, vespers: When night comes, one can hear the frogs
calling from the pond. 3 night and day. all the time,
continually, incessantly, unceasingly, continuously, unendingly,
endlessly, round-the-clock, ceaselessly, non-stop: Those
animals keep up their caterwauling night and day.