niggardy
English
Etymology
niggard + -y
Noun
niggardy (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Niggardliness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- '1922, John McKenzie, Hindu Ethics: A Historical and Critical Essay, page 24:
- Likewise, greatly making thyself naked, thou fastenest on a person in dreams, O niggard, baffling the plan and design of a man.
- Departure from the niggardy is praised : Thou hast left niggardy, hast found what is pleasant; […]
References
- niggardy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.