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niggard

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
nig=gard

CIDE DICTIONARY

niggardn. [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."  [1913 Webster]
    "Be niggards of advice on no pretense."  [1913 Webster]
niggarda. 
     Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.  [1913 Webster]
niggardv. 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.

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, tightwad

ROGET 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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