nithered

comparative more nithered · superlative most nithered

1. Northern EnglandScotlandVery cold; shrivelled with cold.First known use 17th c.

   I'm fair nithered, sat sittin' here in this bloody draught.

   2004, Ken McCoy, Jacky Boy

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   I did spend a couple o' nights out in the open but I got so bloody nithered I couldn't sleep. I daren't sleep any road, 'cause it were that bloody cold...

   1985, Sheelagh Kelly, A long way from heaven

   ‘You'll be warm enough.’ ‘I bloody won't. I'm nithered now.’

   1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 344

   Talk About Nithered! In several severe winters - 1739, 1880, 1963 - the Hardraw waterfall at Hawes had become a giant icicle, just under 100 feet long.

   2003, Howard Peach, Curious Tales of Old North Yorkshire