niggard

niggard englannista suomeksi

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niggard englanniksi

1. Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.

2. Miserly or stingy.

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1755|author=Tobias Smollett|title=The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, translated from the original Spanish of Cervantes|volume=II|chapter=III

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1852|author=Chambers (publisher)|William; Robert Chambers|title=Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

5. A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.

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6. (RQ:Shakespeare Sonnets)

7. (quote-text) The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor

8. 1955, R. R. Tolkien|J. R. R. Tolkien, ''The Return of the King'', Book VI, Chapter 6 "Many Partings":

‘No niggard are you, Éomer,’ said Aragorn, ‘to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!’

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

10. 1833, Edward Bulwer Lytton, ''Godolphin''

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(..)

11. 1851, From a catalog of the (w)

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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13. (quote-journal)

14. To hoard; to act stingily.