[CalRobert]

If anyone else was curious

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/niggle

""" Etymology

First attested in 1599. Origin uncertain, but likely borrowed from dialectal Norwegian nigla (“to be stingy, to busy oneself with trifles”), ultimately from Old Norse hnøggr (“stingy; miserly”), related to Old English hnēaw (“stingy; niggardly”). More at niggard. """

Niggard is unrelated to the racial slur we're thinking of but in fairness I can understand how it would raise eyebrows.

[dahart]

> Niggard is unrelated to the racial slur we’re thinking of but in fairness I can understand how it would raise eyebrows.

Would it be fair to say that a history of raising eyebrows establishes some relationship between otherwise previously unrelated words?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_n...

[ctoth]

I was also curious. If you really wanna go down the rabbit hole:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1557349

History certainly loves to rhyme.

[CyberDildonics]

Start saying it at work every day and when you get fired, you can tell them "but it was first attested in 1599!"