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单词 niggardship
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niggardshipn.

Forms: see niggard n. and -ship suffix; also 1500s negarshyp, 1500s niggarship, 1500s nygarshippe.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: niggard n., -ship suffix.
Etymology: < niggard n. + -ship suffix.
Obsolete.
Niggardliness.Common in the 16th cent.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun]
fastship?c1225
scarcenessa1300
scarcity1340
niggardyc1390
nithingheada1400
scarcehead1420
nigonryc1430
niggardship?a1439
pinching1440
straitheadc1450
straitnessc1460
niggard cheap1463
niggardnessc1487
nigonshipa1500
niggardise1502
niggishness1519
niggardliness1556
parsimony1561
illiberality1581
nearness1584
tenacity1586
Euclionism1599
paring1607
servilitya1610
niggeralitya1612
scanting1625
scant-handednessa1627
closefistedness1631
niggardess1632
close-handedness1646
strait-handedness1649
penury1651
unbountifulness1660
parsimoniousness1671
penuriousness1672
stinginess1682
closeness1712
illiberalness1727
meanness1755
cheeseparing1834
scrimping1835
churlishness1846
screwing1848
skinflintism1853
screwiness1856
flint-paring1860
skinflintiness1861
scrimp1864
flint-skinning1873
penny-pinching1895
skimping1898
tight-fistedness1975
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iii. 375 (MED) Whan..negardship exilith ientilesse, Than is withdrawe from ther hih noblesse The peeplis herte.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 121 Þe thredde fote brede of wose of coueytise is nygardschippe.
1463 R. Cutler in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 294 Summe sey þat ȝe kepe hym at home for negard chepe and wyll no thyng ware vp-on hym.
a1500 in Englische Studien (1910) 41 261 (MED) Lete not nygardschip have þe maystri for schame þat may be-falle.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hi Let neuer negarshyp your noblenesse affray.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 240 Lest the others might thynke niggardship to bee upbraided unto hym, and cast in his teeth.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 185 It can not be but nigardship or neede, Made him attempt this foule and wicked deede.
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 73 Your rauennous niggardship, and base pinching.
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. Epil. sig. K2 Niggardship, and covetousness.
1886 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Niggardship.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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