Home › Words › N › niggardshipniggardshipniggardship means niggardliness; stinginess.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, niggardship ranks #6,387 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Middle English nigardshipe, nygartship, negardship, nygardschip, nygardschippe, equivalent to niggard + -ship.nounNiggardliness; stinginess.e.g.“much pinching and niggardship of meat and drink is to be discommended” — 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).