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Nightingale syndrome

The Florence Nightingale effect is a situation where a caregiver develops romantic feelings for their patient. Many often misunderstand the term to mean the opposite; that is, a patient falling in love with the caregiver as a result of interpreting an amiable bedside manner as affection.
See Florence_Nightingale_effect on Wikipedia, often confused with Nightingale syndrome (which is something else entirely).
by Walkman100 January 19, 2016
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Nightwish

Fuckin' awesome power metal band from Finland. Their singer is a trained opera singer and she's pretty hot, too! Check out www.nightwish.com
No seriously, I'm into Nightwish for the music
by Sexcellent Bickwuck October 23, 2002
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Nightwish

A heavy metal band from Finland, and easily one of the goddamned best to have graced the music world. Combining talent, awesome lyrics and kick-ass music into one mind-blowing whole, nobody can play gothic metal like Nightwish can. They don't posturate their music in an over-the-top, "we're evil goths and we love it" attitude that many other metal bands seem to (*cough* Marilyn Manson *cough*), and the Heavy Metal world just wouldn't be complete without them.
Nightwish... Underrated personifications of Melodic metal. It's difficult to praise 'em too much... they flat out kick ass. What's Metallica doing at the top of the charts, anyway?
by Alhadis November 24, 2004
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Nightwish

A Excellent band that doesn't need to act tough and rebellious (see slipknot) and makes the metal industry proud.
Nightwish were great last night

Of course
by Thomson October 16, 2003
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Nightlight

A tool commonly used by children under the age of 8 to scare the piss out of the boogeyman as he creeps out of the closet. Causes burning of the scalp, eyes, and genitals.
John's nightlight really helped him get to sleep.
by Kyleddeck August 27, 2008
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Nightingale Pasta

A phrase that is used when more than one neighbors sexual activities can be heard at the same time, giving the impression that a nightingale is dying in boiling agony. The common response to this layer of awkwardness is to eat pasta.
I swear all my neighbors were going at it last night...so I had to bust out the old nightingale pasta cuz I don't have a girlfriend.
by KosherBob January 4, 2021
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Nightingale

Beautiful woman that has eyes of a godess amazing singer, falls deep loves hard is family orientated , dosent have a bad bone in her a really amazing kisser , all nightingale's tend to be incredibly gorgeous with the most flawless skin , but watch out for her short wick temper Everybody needs a nightingale
Nightingales are keepers
by Jane webb December 17, 2013
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