Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
nigh on en · X
Meanings
Almost, nearly; approaching; not quite.
“[…]They say he has sold himself to the devil for a pretty face. It’s nigh on eighteen years since I met him. He hasn’t changed much since then. I have, though,” she added, with a sickly leer. 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XVI, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
I’ve shoveled up the gypsum till it nigh on makes you choke. 1964, Ron Angel, “The ICI Song”:
I had been working in this industry for nigh on twelve years when it happened.