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niggard Noun a stingy person [perhaps from Old Norse]
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--Warwick feasting his retainers with beef and ale, was a niggard to the noble Mehevi To this change (which in some particulars is melancholy to one who knew the country in its infancy), it may be added that the Otsego is beginning to be a niggard of its treasures. Your chief is either a niggard, or you are a fool, to come empty-handed into the mountains. |
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niggard - a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend