Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Niggard

Niggard (nig"gẽrd) , noun

[Icelandic hnoggr niggardly, stingy + -ard; compare Swedish njugg, Anglo-Saxon hneáw.]

A person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser. — Chaucer
A penurious niggard of his wealth. — Milton
Be niggards of advice on no pretense. — Pope

Niggard , adjective

Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.

Niggard , verb, transitive and intransitive

To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly. [Rare] — Shakespeare