niggard
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
- 2.
Miserly or stingy.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
‘No niggard are you, Éomer,’ said Aragorn, ‘to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!’
Đồng nghĩa: carl, cheapass, cheapie, cheapskate, cheapo, churl, clutchfist, el cheapo, last of the big spenders, magpie, miser, moneygrubber, muckworm, nickel nurser, nig, niggard, nigon, nipcheese, nipfarthing, penny-father, penny pincher, pickpenny, piker, pinch-commons, pinch-gut, pincher, pinchfist, pinchpenny, scrimp, scrooge, snudge, squirrel, skinflint, tight-arse, tightwad
- 2.
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 […]
1851, From a catalog of the Great Exhibition Cooking apparatus, adapted for an opening eight feet wide, by five feet high, and containing an open-fire roasting range, with sliding spit-racks and winding cheek or niggard;
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To hoard; to act stingily.
Đồng nghĩa: amass, amound, engross, get up, hoard, intreasure, niggard, packrat, rathole, squirrel away, uphoard
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From Middle English nigard, nygard (miser), from nig (niggardly person), possibly of Scandinavian origin; compare Old Icelandic hnøggr (miserly, stingy), non, with descendants njugg stingy, dialectal niggla be stingy, dialectal nigla. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hnauwjaz, source of Old English hneaw (stingy), replaced by Middle English nig. Possibly cognate to niggle (miser).