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niggardly

adj
/ˈnɪɡədli/UK/ˈnɪɡɚdli/US

Etymology

From niggard + -ly (adjectival suffix).

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

Definitions

  1. Withholding for the sake of meanness

    Withholding for the sake of meanness; stingy, miserly.

    • [W]here the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly.
    • They were not niggardly, these tramps, and he who had money did not hesitate to share it among the rest.
    • This manifests itself in an implacable tendency to provide an opulent supply of some things and a niggardly yield of others.

  2. Conceding few runs (of a bowler).

  3. In a parsimonious way

    In a parsimonious way; sparingly, stingily.

    • because many families are compelled to live niggardly, exhaust and undone by great dowers, none shall be given at all, or very little […].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at niggardly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01niggardly02stingily03stingy04scant05scanty

A definitional loop anchored at niggardly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at niggardly

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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