Niggard

Adjective

 * 1) Miserly or stingy.
 * 2) * 1852, William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal:
 * [H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.

Noun

 * 1) A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
 * 2) * 1618, John Taylor, The Pennyles Pilgrimage OR The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor:
 * All his pleasures were social; and while health and fortune smiled upon him, he was no niggard either of his time or talents to those who needed them.

Thesaurus
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, tightwad

Etymology
Derived from the verb nigla, meaning "to fuss about small matters". Cognate to the English word "niggle", which retains the original Norse meaning.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:miser

Derived terms

 * niggardly

Anagrams

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