0 past simple and past participle of niggle
2 to criticize someone about small details or give too much attention to details:
She niggles endlessly over the exact pronunciation.
The accounts department is niggling me for ten pence they say I owe them.
It is here that a number of difficulties about the case study choices which had niggled from the start came to a head.
They were not enamoured of the idea, they did not like it, and they have constantly niggled away at it ever since.
But at the same time he has niggled about it.
They have never niggled only on grounds of expenditure.
I get niggled with anything out of place and jump at my wife and say that's not good enough.
He thought that we haggled and niggled about details.
Lastly, there are proposals to deal with fees and remove an anomaly which has always niggled me.
Every time, on everything that we have done, they have niggled and knocked.