† niggeralityn.
Obsolete.
Niggardliness.
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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
a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) sig. B3v In poore men not to giue, is niggerality.
1823 J. Galt Entail III. xxi. 201 Every farthing I can extortionate frae thee..shall be pay't o'er to her.., just to wring thy heart o' niggerality.
1838 J. Galt in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 42/1 If Moorlans is mindit to make a connexion, I'll no be a balk wi' niggerality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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