nugifying

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adjective

Rendering trifling or futile; making silly.

OriginLatin nugae →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectivenugifying (comparative more nugifying, superlative most nugifying)

comparative more nugifying · superlative most nugifying

  1. Rendering trifling or futile; making silly.

    Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers […]

    1840, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit

Origin

  1. Latinnugae“trifles”
  2. Englishnugifying

From Latin nugae (“trifles”) + -fy + -ing.

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APA

nugifying. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nugifying

MLA

“nugifying.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nugifying. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nugifying,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nugifying.

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