Crossword-Solution: NIGGLE 6 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Ethel’s best writing was an upright, disjointed niggle, looking more like Greek than anything else, except where here and there it made insane efforts to become running-hand, and thereby lost its sole previous good quality of legibility, while the lines waved about the sheet in almost any direction but the horizontal.

That schoolgirl's niggle is worse than the first.' 'Fanny, as I told you,' said Louis, looking vacantly up in resigned despair, yet not without the lurking expression of amusement, 'I will try again.' 'No, I thank you.

Dic.) _Niggle_ is one of the English Gipsy words which are used in the East, but which I have not been able to find in the German Rommany, proving that here, as in other countries, certain old forms have been preserved, though they have been lost where the vocabulary is far more copious, and the grammar much more perfect.

Some day you'll peep in here languidly and find me in such an attitude of piety--presenting my bent back to you as I niggle over some interminable botch--that I shall give cruelly on your nerves and you'll just draw away, closing the door softly.

Niggle's (which, I learned from his emblazoned door-posts was the name of my respectable master), "be as careful about these as you can.