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Middle English
Etymology
From nygard (“miser”) + -ie, from nig (“niggardly person”). See niggard.
Noun
nygardie (countable and uncountable, plural not attested)
- niggardliness, stinginess, miserliness.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shypmans Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC,
folio lxxv, verso, column 1, line
172:
But yet me greueth moſte his nygardye- Yet I grieve most for his niggardliness
- (colloquial) A niggard, a stingy person, a miser.
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