niggarding

English

Verb

niggarding

1. present participle and gerund of niggard
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 1”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
     And only herald to the gaudy spring,
     Within thine own bud buriest thy content
     And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding.