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  • I took the liberty a few days ago of asking your black velvet bonnet to lend me its cawl, which it very readily did, and by which I have been enabled to give a considerable improvement of dignity to my cap, which was before too _nidgetty_ to please me.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • - I took the liberty a few days ago of asking your Black velvet Bonnet to lend me its cawl, which it very readily did, & by which I have been enabled to give a considerable improvement of dignity to my Cap, which was before too nidgetty to please me.

    Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others 1796

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  • trifling, or fussy.

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    Jane Austen's letter to her sister Cassandra, Dec. 18, 1798:

    I took the liberty a few days ago of asking your black velvet bonnet to lend me its caul, which it readily did, and by which I have been enabled to give a considerable improvement of dignity to the cap, which was before too nidgetty to please me. … I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter. After the ball I shall probably make it entirely black.

    November 5, 2007

  • In fact this is the only attestation of this word. In the 1884 printing of her letters it was rendered as 'midgetty' (also not a known word); the reading 'nidgetty' is from the 1995 edition.

    August 15, 2008