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niggardliness

noun

Etymology

From niggardly + -ness.

  1. derived from *hnauwjaz✻
  2. inherited from nigard
  3. formed as niggardly — “niggard + -ly”
  4. suffixed as niggardliness — “niggardly + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being niggardly

    The state of being niggardly; parsimony.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for niggardliness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA