Niggard - What does it mean?
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Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
Miserly or stingy.
* 1852 , , Chambers' Edinburgh Journal :
A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
* 1618 , , The Pennyles Pilgrimage OR The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor :
* 1955 , , The Return of the King , Book VI, Chapter 6
A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.
* Edward Bulwer Lytton, Godolphin
* From a catalog of the Great Exhibition of 1851:
*: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 ;
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niggard
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- [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
(en noun)- 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.
"Many Partings":
- ‘No niggard are you, Éomer,’ said Aragorn, ‘to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!’
- 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