niggard

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
2. sıfat Miserly or stingy.

   “It was, however, the pleasure of his niggard and unhappy fortune, that in seeking a place proper for his accommodation, he and Dapple tumbled into a deep and very dark pit, among a number of old buildings.”

3. isim A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

   “Then beautious nigard why dooſt thou abuſe / The bountious largeſſe giuen thee to giue?”

4. isim A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.

   “1833, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Godolphin It was evening: he ordered a fire and lights; and, leaning his face on his hand as he contemplated the fitful and dusky upbreakings of the flame through the bars of the niggard and contracted grate […]”

5. fiil To hoard; to act stingily.

   “Within thine owne bud burieſt thy content, / And tender chorle makſt waſt in niggarding: […]”