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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Niggardly; stingy; mean.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete niggardly

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Niggardly.

Etymologies

  1. See niggard. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Horses, so niggish was that Tyrant of his provender, that he nourished them with the bodies of men.”

    The Golden Asse

  • “For there nothing is distributed after a niggish sort, neither there is any poor man or beggar.”

    The Second Book. Of the Religions in Utopia

  • “Histories how the King of Thrace would throw his miserable ghests to be torne in peeces and devoured of his wild Horses, so niggish was that”

    The Golden Asse

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