nygardie
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom nygard (“miser”) + -ie, from nig (“niggardly person”). See niggard.
Noun
editnygardie (countable and uncountable, plural not attested)
- niggardliness, stinginess, miserliness.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shypmans Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxxv, verso, column 1, line 172:
- But yet me greueth moſte his nygardye
- Yet I grieve most for his niggardliness
- (colloquial) A niggard, a stingy person, a miser.
Derived terms
edit- (obsolete) niggardy