Meanings
Nige1
- AustraliaUKA diminutive of the male given name Nigel.
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No sane person intends to go down a path where Saturdays are spent changing from jeans to a Dothraki pelt-skin costume in the back of a Ford Focus in a Milton Keynes conference centre car-park before meeting their friend Nige (him of the egg-box dragon costume and blow-torch mouth o' fire effect) but cosplay has to start somewhere.
2012 June 2, Grace Dent, “Grace Dent on TV: Game of Thrones, Sky Atlantic”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2012
NigE2
- abbreviationhuman sciencesAbbreviation of Nigerian English.
Many NigE slang expressions have a short life, while others have more staying power, and some, like gist, described earlier, are perhaps colloquial rather than slang.
2019, David Jowitt, “Lexis and discourse”, in Nigerian English, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 137
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Nigel.
Origin
Clipping of Nigel.
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Cite this entry
Nige. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nige
“Nige.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nige. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Nige,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Nige.
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