Usually means: Causing slight but persistent annoyance.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word niggling:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. niggling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. niggling: Merriam-Webster
  3. niggling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. niggling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. niggling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Niggling, niggling: Wordnik
  7. niggling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. niggling: Wiktionary
  9. niggling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. niggling: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Niggling, niggling: Dictionary.com
  12. niggling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Niggling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Niggling: Rhymezone
  15. Niggling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. niggling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. niggling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. niggling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. niggling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. niggling: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. niggling: Idioms
  2. niggling: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. niggling, niggling: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. niggling: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See niggle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Petty
adjective:  Irritating.
noun:  A small irritating sensation.

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