1 a small criticism or complaint:
My only niggle is that they should have told me sooner.
2 a slight feeling such as worry, doubt, etc. that does not go away:
a niggle of doubt / jealousy * In his mind there was that same old niggle-had he done the right thing?
3 a slight pain:
He gets the occasional niggle in his right shoulder.
Part of speech: verb
1 ~ (at sb) to irritate or annoy sb slightly; to make sb slightly worried
SYNBOTHER:
[V] A doubt niggled at her. * [VNthat] It niggled him that she had not phoned back. * [VN] Something was niggling her.
2 [V] ~ (about / over sth)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for niggle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is niggle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, niggle is tagged as noun.
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