niggardship

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English

Etymology

From Middle English nigardshipe, nygartship, negardship, nygardschip, nygardschippe, equivalent to niggard +‎ -ship.

Noun

niggardship (uncountable)

(obsolete) Niggardliness; stinginess.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published , →OCLC:
  much pinching and niggardship of meat and drink is to be discommended

References

“niggardship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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