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English Dictionary: niggling by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
niggling
adj
  1. (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
    Synonym(s): fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Niggle \Nig"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Niggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Niggling}.] [Dim. of Prov. E. nig to clip money; cf. also
      Prov. E. nig a small piece.]
      To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Niggling \Nig"gling\, n.
      Finicky or pottering work; specif. (Fine Arts), minute and
      very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like,
      esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.
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