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- noun Plural form of
nadger .
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Examples
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We knit up sleeves, eat horse tablets, gallop nadgers and quote King George well, his advisors, anyway.
The Maladay of Tongues « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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Nadgers, or to have a case of the galloping nadgers, is another family favourite, although our useage of nadger refers to any scab, rash or visible skin ailment rather thanprinting subroutines, as the internet might otherwise have you believe.
The Maladay of Tongues « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008
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We knit up sleeves, eat horse tablets, gallop nadgers and quote King George well, his advisors, anyway.
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Nadgers, or to have a case of the galloping nadgers, is another family favourite, although our useage of nadger refers to any scab, rash or visible skin ailment rather thanprinting subroutines, as the internet might otherwise have you believe.
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Ralph was good in the much maligned 'Baby of Macon', getting a bull's horn in the nadgers and dying horribly in a welter of thespian intestines.
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If you are stupid enough to either ignore the weather forecast or set out in when there is a warning of snowy weather an unsuitable motorcar, you deserve to freeze your nadgers off stuck on the M4 up to your windscreen in snow.
The Guardian World News Robin McKie 2010
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The average copper, when he'd been kicked in the nadgers once too often and has reason to believe that his bosses don't much care, has an understandable tendency to prefer to arrest those people who won't instantly try to stab him, especially if they act a bit snotty and wear more expensive clothes than he personally can afford.
Irons in the Fire 2009
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It was a great series, but the thing I remember was someone getting filled in and an NCO charging in, the aggressor is standing over his victim legs apart, and the NCO casually boots him right in the nadgers from behind.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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It was a great series, but the thing I remember was someone getting filled in and an NCO charging in, the aggressor is standing over his victim legs apart, and the NCO casually boots him right in the nadgers from behind.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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Activists sign up to kick scheme in the nadgers Touch my bod-Eee
The Inquirer 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word nadgers
(adjective) - An expression used when a coin, in tossing, falls upon its edge - neither head nor tail up.
--R. Pearse Chope's Dialect of Hartland, Devonshire, 1891
January 14, 2018