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niggard🔊

Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.

Miserly or stingy.

A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

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Then beautious nigard why doost thou abuse / The bountious largesse given thee to give?
‘No niggard are you, Éomer,’ said Aragorn, ‘to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!’

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

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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 […]

To hoard; to act stingily.

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Within thine owne bud buriest thy content, / And tender chorle makst wast in niggarding: […]
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