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nigga |
niggard
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niggard
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun niggard has 1 sense
- niggard(n = noun.person) churl, scrooge, skinflint - a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend; Array is a kind of hoarder
has particulars: pinchgut
Derived form adjective niggardly1
CIDE DICTIONARY
niggard, n. [Icel. hnöggr niggardly, stingy + -ard; cf. Sw. njugg, AS. hneáw.].
A person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
"A penurious niggard of his wealth."
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"Be niggards of advice on no pretense."
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niggard, a.
Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy. [1913 Webster]
niggard, v. t. & i.
To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
niggard, n. & adj.
--n. a mean or stingy person.
--adj. archaic = NIGGARDLY.
--n. a mean or stingy person.
--adj. archaic = NIGGARDLY.
Etymology
ME, alt. f. earlier (obs.) nigon, prob. of Scand. orig.: cf. NIGGLE
THESAURUS
niggard
Silas Marner, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churl, close, curmudgeon, grudging, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, muckworm, niggardly, penny pincher, penny-pinching, penurious, pinchfist, pinchgut, pinchpenny, save-all, scrooge, shabby, skinflint, sordid, stiff, tight, tightwadROGET THESAURUS
niggard
Parsimony
N parsimony, parcity, parsimoniousness, stinginess, stint, illiberality, tenacity, avarice, greed, miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer, Hessian, pinch fist, pinch penny, parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close, fast handed, close handed, strait handed, close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted, tight, sparing, chary, grudging, griping, illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious, with a sparing hand, desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia, hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill, the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures.
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