niggardship

From Middle English nigardshipe, nygartship, negardship, nygardschip, nygardschippe, equivalent to niggard +‎ -ship.

niggardship (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Niggardliness; stinginess.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

     much pinching and niggardship of meat and drink is to be discommended

• “niggardship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.