Fork tongued, EL-ANG-LISH -E-lANGUage (ANGUs-BEEF) I0I IM NOT NICE PERSON nice (adj.) Look up nice at Dictionary late 13c., foolish, stupid, senseless, from Old French nice (12c.) careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish, from Latin nescius ignorant, unaware, literally not-knowing, from ne- not (see un-) + stem of scire to know (see science). The sense development has been extraordinary, even for an adj. [Weekley] -- from timid (pre-1300); to fussy, fastidious (late 14c.); to dainty, delicate (c.1400); to precise, careful (1500s, preserved in such terms as a nice distinction and nice and early); to agreeable, delightful (1769); to kind, thoughtful (1830).
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