1. niggard - Noun
2. niggard - Adjective
3. niggard - Verb
A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.
Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.
To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
Source: Webster's dictionarySpeaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds. Walter Raleigh
How mean thy hates Fostered in falsity [...] Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity. Ezra Pound
Along the illimitable shade Darkling and lone their way they made, Through the vast kingdom of the dead, An empty void, though tenanted: So travellers in a forest move With but the uncertain moon above, Beneath her niggard light. John Conington
The Sluggard works twice, the niggard pays twice. Bulgarian Proverb