Miler vs Miser - What's the difference?
miler | miser |
an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction )
* 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night
* 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door
(pejorative) A person who hoards money rather than spending it; one who is cheap or extremely parsimonious.
As nouns the difference between miler and miser
is that miler is an athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile (often used in a compound with a number or fraction ) while miser is maize.miler
English
Noun
(en noun)- But the master himself was an old Oxford miler , who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.
- The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.
Derived terms
* half-miler * quarter-milerAnagrams
* ----miser
English
(wikipedia miser)Noun
(en noun)- was a stereotypical miser , he spent nothing he could save; neither giving to charity nor enjoying his wealth.