genau "precise, exact"), and to O.E. hneaw "stingy, niggardly," which did not survive in M.E. "It was while giving a speech in Washington, to a very international audience, about the British theft of the Elgin marbles from the Parthenon. ... The Online Etymology Dictionary...
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1.1 Etymology ... niggardly (comparative more niggardly, superlative most niggardly) ... Comparative; more niggardly...
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Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...depreciatory sense of some of these led to its being used to form similar words on various stems, as dastard , drunkard , laggard , niggard , sluggard , wizard . In several words it conceals endings of a different origin, as bustard , custard ,
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niggardly - Words that rhyme with niggardly from Dictionary of Rhymes at Encyclopedia.com ... stingy; Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology stingy niggardly XVII; (dial.) ill-tempered XVIII. perh. based on a (dial.) var. stinge of STING ; see -Y1 .
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I was recently involved in a discussion, a rather heated one at that, over the word niggardly. While I am familiar with the dictionary definition of the word, my premise was that it likely derives from the ... The moral of the story is, this is what happens when people insist on relying on folk etymology and speculation.
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"stingy, niggardly," which did not survive in M.E. ... I described the attitude of the current British authorities as 'niggardly.' Nobody said anything, but I privately resolved—having felt the word hanging in the air a bit—to say 'parsimonious' from then on." [Christopher Hitchens, "The Pernicious Effects of Banning...
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Not too long ago, the adjective niggardly caused a storm. All of a sudden etymology found itself in the limelight, and those who ply this trade realized the blessings of obscurity. I talked myself hoarse explaining the origin of niggardly, trying to save its reputation.
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Though the etymology of niggardly and niggard remains subject to debate, these words probably have a Scandinavian origin not associated historically with the origin of the offensive word Negro and its related offensive racist slurs, which are derived ultimately from Latin.
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'' Leaf By Niggle '', a short story by J. R. R. Tolkien with an eponymous protagonist whose name shares an etymology with "niggardly". ... Details of the Niggardly Controversy from a Adversity.Net "for victims of Reverse Discrimination "
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The mayor and Howard's critics, however, had confused their etymology. The word niggardly derives from the Middle English nig, a word rooted in Old Norse that means a stingy person. It has nothing to do with nigger, an offensive slang expression coming from nègre, a French noun that means a black person.
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