单词 | niggardship |
释义 | † niggardshipn. Obsolete. Niggardliness.Common in the 16th cent. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.?a1439 |
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