niggard

noun

A stingy, grasping person; a miser.

adjective

Stingy; miserly.

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.

To stint; supply sparingly.

To be parsimonious or niggardly.

noun

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

adjective

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

verb

To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.