nygardie

Middle English

From nygard (“miser”) +‎ -ie, from nig (“niggardly person”). See niggard.

nygardie (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.

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