noun. A stingy, grasping person; a miser.

adjective. Stingy; miserly.

To stint; supply sparingly.

To be parsimonious or niggardly.

noun. A stingy or close-fisted person; a parsimonious or avaricious person; one who stints, or supplies sparingly; a miser.

noun. A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel. Also nigger.

Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.

noun. A person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser.

verb. To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.

adjective. Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.

adjective. Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.

adjective. Miserly or stingy.

noun. A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

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

noun. a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend

"The Highland soldier, far from his country, is accompanied by this holy love, this inexhaustible stimulus to exertion, which induces him to save with what may be unjustly called a niggard hand his earnings, to support, in their old age, those who have given him birth."

spendthrift  waster  

niggardly  

hoarder  

pinchgut  

Sigurd  triggered  

baseborn  befal  gravity-defying  hands  ill-judged  

Silas Marner  carl  cheapskate  cheeseparing  churl