† nign.¹

Forms: Middle English nig, 1500s nygge.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hnøggr (Icelandic hnöggur ), Norwegian (Nynorsk) nøgg , Swedish njugg , Swedish regional nägg , nagg , early modern Danish nygger , adjectives, in sense ‘parsimonious, stingy’, cognate with Old English hnēaw stingy, Middle Dutch nauwe narrow, stingy (Dutch nauw narrow), Middle Low German nouwe narrow, scanty, Middle High German nou , nouwe narrow, exact, careful (German genau exact), probably ultimately related to the Indo-European base of classical Greek κνύειν to scratch (see need n.²)). Compare niggle v.²

Obsolete. rare.

= niggard n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person

nithinga1225

chinch?a1300

nigc1300

chincher1333

shut-purse1340

niggardc1384

haynec1386

nigona1400

pinchera1425

pinchpenny?c1425

pynepenya1450

pelt1511

chincherda1529

churl1535

pinchbeck1538

carl?1542

penny-father1549

nipfarthing1566

nipper?1573

holdfast1576

pinchpence1577

pinch fistc1580

pinchfart1592

shit-sticks1598

clunchfist1606

puckfist1606

sharp-nose1611

spare-good1611

crib1622

hog grubber?1626

dry-fist1633

clusterfist1652

niggardling1654

frummer1659

scrat1699

sting-hum1699

nipcheese1785

pincha1825

screw1825

wire-drawer1828

close-fist1861

penny-pincher1875

nip-skin1876

parer1887

pinch-plum1892

cheapskate1899

meanie1902

tightwad1906

stinge1914

penny-peeler1925

mean1938

stiff1967

c1300 Vision St. Paul (Laud) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1874) 52 36 (MED) Trichour he was euere embe ȝwile Foul nig and hard in al is liue.

c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. C.ii Some of hem ben harde nygges And some of hem ben proude and gay.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kii/1 A Nigge, parca mulier.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) App. Nig, a miserly, sordid, pinch-gut fellow.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

nign.²

Brit.

/nɪɡ/, U.S.

/nɪɡ/

Forms: 1600s– nig, 1800s– nigg (English regional).

Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nig v.²

Etymology: Probably < nig v.²

Now English regional (rare).

†1. slang. A clipping taken from a coin. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] > portion clipped from coin

scissel1622

clipping1689

nig1699

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nig, the Clippings of Money.

1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxix. 340 Gentlemen of the Nig,..vulgarly call'd Clippers.

1725 New Canting Dict. Nig, the clippings of Money.

1796 Grose's Dict. Vulgar Tongue (1931) Nig, the clippings of money.

c1825 Mod. Flash Dict. at Nig Clipping of money.]

2. English regional (Essex). A small piece. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1853 Notes & Queries 9 Apr. 366/2 In Essex, nig signifies a piece.

1880 R. S. Charnock Gloss. Essex Dial. Nigg, a small piece.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

nign.³

Brit.

/nɪɡ/, U.S.

/nɪɡ/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: nigger n.

Etymology: Shortened < nigger n.

colloquial and regional (usually derogatory and offensive).

= nigger n. (in various senses).

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]

AfriceOE

MoorOE

EthiopOE

blomana1225

Ethiopiana1325

blue mana1387

Moriana1387

black mana1398

blackamoor1525

black Morian1526

black boy1530

molen1538

Nigro1548

Nigrite1554

Negro1555

neger1568

nigger1577

blackfellow1598

Kaffir1607

black1614

thick-lipsa1616

Hubsheea1627

black African1633

blackface1704

sambo1704

Cuffee1713

Nigritian1738

fellow1753

Cuff1755

blacky1759

mungo1768

Quashie1774

darkie?1775

snowball1785

blue skin1788

Moriscan1794

sooterkin1821

nigc1832

tar-brush1835–40

Jim Crow1838

sooty1838

mokec1847

dinge1848

monkey1849

Siddi1849

dark1853

nigre1853

Negroid1860

kink1865

Sam1867

Rastus1882

schvartze1886

race man1896

possum1900

shine1908

jigaboo1909

smoke1913

golliwog1916

jazzbo1918

boogie1923

jig1924

melanoderm1924

spade1928

jit1931

Zulu1931

eight ball1932

Afro1942

nigra1944

spook1945

munt1948

Tom1956

boot1957

soul brother1957

nig-nog1959

member1962

pork chop1963

splib1964

blood1965

non-voter1966

moolinyan1967

Oreo1968

boogaloo1972

pongo1972

moolie1988

c1832 T. D. Rice Jim Crow x De Nigs in ole Virginny Be so black dey shine.

1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 20 Sept. 2/2 Two little nigs..had a most scientific set-to at the corner.

1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. I. 137 He resents..the name of ‘Nigger’, or ‘Nig’—Jupiter Tonans has heard of the offensive dissyllable..but has he heard of the more offensive monosyllable which was forced upon the abbreviating Anglo-Saxon by the fatal necessity of requiring to repeat the word so frequently?

1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 43 Treat your servants as fellow-creatures, not as ‘nigs’—a term too often applied..to the Indian natives.

1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xvi. 245 He never wipes the glass slobbered over by dozens of dirty nigs!

1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 162 You don't know wot it costs us, you nigs, to tidy up things for you.

1981 A. Weller Day of Dog 48 Ya want to look out for those wackers. They hate us nigs.

1995 Represent Apr.–May 16/2 All that rap shit is fake. They don't know music, all those nigs can do is sample and steal other peoples shit.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† nigv.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nig n.¹

Etymology: < nig n.¹

Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To be mean or niggardly.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)]

spare1377

to lick one's knifec1400

chincha1425

pincha1425

stick1533

nig1559

to make pottage of a flintc1576

niggard1596

wretcha1598

niggardize1606

wire-draw1616

screw1820

skincha1825

scrimp1848

stinge1937

to pinch pennies (also a penny)1942

penny-pinch1945

1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. M4^v By withholding thy hande, and nigging, to make her not hable to kepe out thine ennemy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

† nigv.²

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: nick v.²

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps originally a variant of nick v.², with reference to the practice cutting off of slivers of metal from the edges of coins, although perhaps compare niggle v.² and also nig n.¹

slang. Obsolete.

transitive. To clip (money).

ΚΠ

1699 [implied in: B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nigging, Clipping. (at nigging n.¹)].

1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. 23/2 Nig, to clip.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

nigv.³

Brit.

/nɪɡ/, U.S.

/nɪɡ/

Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: English renig , renege v.

Etymology: Probably shortened < renig, U.S. variant of renege v.

U.S. slang. Now rare.

intransitive. To cheat. Also: to renege.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something

beguile1394

wrongc1484

delude1493

licka1500

to wipe a person's nose1577

uncle1585

cheat1597

cozen1602

to bob of1605

to bob out of1605

gull1612

foola1616

to set in the nick1616

to worm (a person) out of1617

shuffle1627

to baffle out of1652

chouse1654

trepan1662

bubble1668

trick1698

to bamboozle out of1705

fling1749

jockey1772

swindle1780

twiddle1825

to diddle out of1829

nig1829

to chisel out of1848

to beat out1851

nobble1852

duff1863

flim-flam1890

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > renegue

revoke1592

renounce1656

renege1674

nig1829

1829 Mass. Spy 10 June in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) II. 606 ‘If you hadn't a nig'd,’ says Bullum, ‘you might have had better luck.’

1859 Harper's Mag. Mar. 568/2 If you have got any trumps you had better play them, and not undertake to nig any more!

1949 V. J. Monteleone Criminal Slang Nig,..to renege.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹c1300

n.²1699

n.³c1832

v.¹1559

v.²1699

v.³1829

单词	nig
释义	† nign.¹ Forms: Middle English nig, 1500s nygge. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Origin uncertain; probably < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hnøggr (Icelandic hnöggur ), Norwegian (Nynorsk) nøgg , Swedish njugg , Swedish regional nägg , nagg , early modern Danish nygger , adjectives, in sense ‘parsimonious, stingy’, cognate with Old English hnēaw stingy, Middle Dutch nauwe narrow, stingy (Dutch nauw narrow), Middle Low German nouwe narrow, scanty, Middle High German nou , nouwe narrow, exact, careful (German genau exact), probably ultimately related to the Indo-European base of classical Greek κνύειν to scratch (see need n.²)). Compare niggle v.² Obsolete. rare. = niggard n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person nithinga1225 chinch?a1300 nigc1300 chincher1333 shut-purse1340 niggardc1384 haynec1386 nigona1400 pinchera1425 pinchpenny?c1425 pynepenya1450 pelt1511 chincherda1529 churl1535 pinchbeck1538 carl?1542 penny-father1549 nipfarthing1566 nipper?1573 holdfast1576 pinchpence1577 pinch fistc1580 pinchfart1592 shit-sticks1598 clunchfist1606 puckfist1606 sharp-nose1611 spare-good1611 crib1622 hog grubber?1626 dry-fist1633 clusterfist1652 niggardling1654 frummer1659 scrat1699 sting-hum1699 nipcheese1785 pincha1825 screw1825 wire-drawer1828 close-fist1861 penny-pincher1875 nip-skin1876 parer1887 pinch-plum1892 cheapskate1899 meanie1902 tightwad1906 stinge1914 penny-peeler1925 mean1938 stiff1967 c1300 Vision St. Paul (Laud) in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1874) 52 36 (MED) Trichour he was euere embe ȝwile Foul nig and hard in al is liue. c1535 Ploughman's Tale iii. sig. C.ii Some of hem ben harde nygges And some of hem ben proude and gay. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kii/1 A Nigge, parca mulier. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) App. Nig, a miserly, sordid, pinch-gut fellow.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020). nign.² Brit. /nɪɡ/, U.S. /nɪɡ/ Forms: 1600s– nig, 1800s– nigg (English regional). Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nig v.² Etymology: Probably < nig v.² Now English regional (rare). †1. slang. A clipping taken from a coin. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] > portion clipped from coin scissel1622 clipping1689 nig1699 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nig, the Clippings of Money. 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs xxix. 340 Gentlemen of the Nig,..vulgarly call'd Clippers. 1725 New Canting Dict. Nig, the clippings of Money. 1796 Grose's Dict. Vulgar Tongue (1931) Nig, the clippings of money. c1825 Mod. Flash Dict. at Nig Clipping of money.] 2. English regional (Essex). A small piece. Now rare. ΚΠ 1853 Notes & Queries 9 Apr. 366/2 In Essex, nig signifies a piece. 1880 R. S. Charnock Gloss. Essex Dial. Nigg, a small piece. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nign.³ Brit. /nɪɡ/, U.S. /nɪɡ/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: nigger n. Etymology: Shortened < nigger n. colloquial and regional (usually derogatory and offensive). = nigger n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 c1832 T. D. Rice Jim Crow x De Nigs in ole Virginny Be so black dey shine. 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 20 Sept. 2/2 Two little nigs..had a most scientific set-to at the corner. 1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. I. 137 He resents..the name of ‘Nigger’, or ‘Nig’—Jupiter Tonans has heard of the offensive dissyllable..but has he heard of the more offensive monosyllable which was forced upon the abbreviating Anglo-Saxon by the fatal necessity of requiring to repeat the word so frequently? 1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 43 Treat your servants as fellow-creatures, not as ‘nigs’—a term too often applied..to the Indian natives. 1916 J. B. Cooper Coo-oo-ee xvi. 245 He never wipes the glass slobbered over by dozens of dirty nigs! 1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 162 You don't know wot it costs us, you nigs, to tidy up things for you. 1981 A. Weller Day of Dog 48 Ya want to look out for those wackers. They hate us nigs. 1995 Represent Apr.–May 16/2 All that rap shit is fake. They don't know music, all those nigs can do is sample and steal other peoples shit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † nigv.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: nig n.¹ Etymology: < nig n.¹ Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To be mean or niggardly. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)] spare1377 to lick one's knifec1400 chincha1425 pincha1425 stick1533 nig1559 to make pottage of a flintc1576 niggard1596 wretcha1598 niggardize1606 wire-draw1616 screw1820 skincha1825 scrimp1848 stinge1937 to pinch pennies (also a penny)1942 penny-pinch1945 1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. M4^v By withholding thy hande, and nigging, to make her not hable to kepe out thine ennemy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † nigv.² Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: nick v.² Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps originally a variant of nick v.², with reference to the practice cutting off of slivers of metal from the edges of coins, although perhaps compare niggle v.² and also nig n.¹ slang. Obsolete. transitive. To clip (money). ΚΠ 1699 [implied in: B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nigging, Clipping. (at nigging n.¹)]. 1881 A. Trumble Slang Dict. 23/2 Nig, to clip. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). nigv.³ Brit. /nɪɡ/, U.S. /nɪɡ/ Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: English renig , renege v. Etymology: Probably shortened < renig, U.S. variant of renege v. U.S. slang. Now rare. intransitive. To cheat. Also: to renege. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle > out of something beguile1394 wrongc1484 delude1493 licka1500 to wipe a person's nose1577 uncle1585 cheat1597 cozen1602 to bob of1605 to bob out of1605 gull1612 foola1616 to set in the nick1616 to worm (a person) out of1617 shuffle1627 to baffle out of1652 chouse1654 trepan1662 bubble1668 trick1698 to bamboozle out of1705 fling1749 jockey1772 swindle1780 twiddle1825 to diddle out of1829 nig1829 to chisel out of1848 to beat out1851 nobble1852 duff1863 flim-flam1890 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > play at cards [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics > renegue revoke1592 renounce1656 renege1674 nig1829 1829 Mass. Spy 10 June in R. H. Thornton Amer. Gloss. (1912) II. 606 ‘If you hadn't a nig'd,’ says Bullum, ‘you might have had better luck.’ 1859 Harper's Mag. Mar. 568/2 If you have got any trumps you had better play them, and not undertake to nig any more! 1949 V. J. Monteleone Criminal Slang Nig,..to renege. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1300n.²1699n.³c1832v.¹1559v.²1699v.³1829
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