Niggly vs Niggy - What's the difference?
niggly | niggy |
bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.
trivial, insignificant
*2003 ,
*:They'd argue a lot, about little niggly things — and they had never been like that.
*1994 , Douglas R. Graves -
*:You soon discover there isn't time (nor is there any need) to put in the niggly details. The essence of the pose is its attitude or action and a hint of the model.
pernickety, paying too much attention to small details.
*2003 , page 16
*:Now things are less confrontational but just as niggly . The Spanish examine drivers' papers with elaborate care, causing huge traffic jams
As an adjective niggly
is bad-tempered, especially about trivial details.As a noun niggy is
nigger (black person.niggly
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