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niggardship

Today it means: Niggardliness; stinginess. Full definition →

Middle English nigardshipe

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Middle English · inherited fromnigardshipe
English todayniggardship

From Middle English nigardshipe, nygartship, negardship, nygardschip, nygardschippe, equivalent to niggard + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.