nigher

== English == === Etymology 1 === From nigh +‎ -er. Doublet of near. ==== Adjective ==== nigher (archaic) comparative form of nigh: more nigh === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== nigher (third-person singular simple present nighers, present participle nighering, simple past and past participle nighered) (Scotland) Alternative form of nicker (“to neigh”). === Anagrams === hinger, rehing == Yola == === Adjective === nigher alternative form of neicher === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 84