nugifying

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin nugae (“trifles”) + -fy +‎ -ing.

Adjective

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nugifying (comparative more nugifying, superlative most nugifying)

  1. Rendering trifling or futile; making silly.
    • 1840, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit:
      Let any competent judge read Hacket's Life of Archbishop Williams, and then these Sermons, and so measure the stultifying, nugifying effect of a blind and uncritical study of the Fathers […]
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