Nigel no friends
- noun
- Offensive
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marginado (ofensivo, informal)
- At parties, she sometimes feels like a Nigel no friends when she doesn't know anyone.
Examples
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He was worried he would turn into a Nigel no friends after moving to a new city.
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They teased him for sitting alone, calling him a Nigel no friends in jest.
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Don't be such a Nigel no friends!
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Why does he always act like a Nigel no friends?
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When he sat alone at the table, everyone joked that he was a Nigel no friends.
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After his friends moved away, he worried he might become a Nigel no friends.
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At lunch, she laughed and said, 'Don't be a Nigel no friends; come join us!'
Synonyms
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4.2
A person who prefers to be alone and avoids spending time with others
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9.6
A person who spends most of their time alone and has little social life
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7.2
A person who lives alone and avoids the company of others
A person who spends most time alone and does not go out with friends
A person who spends most time online and has little social life
Antonyms
How Social
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Nigel' is a person-name and 'no friends' clearly means 'has not any friends', so a learner who knows 'no' and 'friend' can infer that it labels a person without friends. The construction is colloquial and slightly non-standard in form but its semantic components are transparent and cross-linguistically recognizable, so it should be understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Nigel no friends may come from using the common name Nigel to stand for a lonely person, with the words no friends showing he has nobody to be with. So people use Nigel no friends jokingly to mean someone who is alone or 'has no friends'.