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nice guy. Nice has undergone a complete change in meaning since it came into English late in the 13th century. Deriving from the Latin nescius, “ignorant,” nice originally meant fool- ish, or simpleminded, and came to mean “wanton or ill- mannered” before another century had passed. By the early 1400s nice was being used for “extravagant dress,” but before the century was out “extravagant dress” (as is so often the case in the world of fashion) had changed to “fashionable dress” and by Shakespeare’s time nice meant “fastidious or refined.” It took another 100 years or so before “refined” yielded to “agreeably delightful,” this definition first recorded in 1769. |