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† ˈniggish, a. Obs.
Also nig(g)eshe, niggyshe, nygyshe, nyggish, -yshe.
[f. nig a. or n. + -ish.]
Niggardly. (Common c 1550–1600.)
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 74 Persones yt dooe glorie & braggue of their niggyshe sloovenry. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 288 Let our wealthie pinchpence therefore..leaue their niggish liues and insatiable couetousnesse. 1605Camden Rem. 196 Other maximes..proceeding from a niggish olde wife.
Hence † ˈniggishly adv.; † ˈniggishness.
1562Turner Baths Ded., The extreme niggishness and illiberalite of sum that had most. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Escharcement vivre, to liue barely, to liue hardly, niggishly. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. iii. x. (1622) 78 The memory of Quirinius was nothing pleasing, by reason..of..miserable niggishness. |