miser
someone who spends little money
TRANSLATION
miser = der Geizhals, der Geizkragen (woerterbuch.info) --- GOOGLE INDEX miser: approximately 4,700,000 hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Vista is a MISER when it comes to using battery power. My laptop ran almost a full hour longer on the same batteries than it did under Windows XP.
(Journal of Accountancy)
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Every man serves a useful purpose: A MISER, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter, American educator and hierarchiologist famous for the publication of "The Peter Principle", in which he states: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
(Journal of Accountancy)
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Every man serves a useful purpose: A MISER, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
- Laurence J. Peter, American educator and hierarchiologist famous for the publication of "The Peter Principle", in which he states: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
Did you
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miser
noun
- (disapproving) someone who has a great desire to possess money and hates to spend it
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Etymology: circa 1540. Miser is from the Latin miser, meaning unhappy or wretched. The sense of a person who hoards money was first recorded around 1560. Misery (unhappiness) also developed from this same Latin root.
(Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology)
Literature is full of colourful misers including Ebenezer Scrooge (the protagonist in Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol"), Silas Marner (main character of the same-named book from George Eliot); and of course Disney's Scrooge McDuck.
Famous real-life penny-pinchers include Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who was a notorious miser until his older years when he became generous and endowed many charitable organisations like the New York Public Library.
Less famous is Charles Huffman, a miser from the 1950's who was found dead on a street in Brooklyn, New York with no money in his pockets. The police traced him to a cheap hotel room full of bankbooks and more than $500,000 in stock certificates.
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SYNONYMS
shylock, cheapskate, churl, curmudgeon, glutton, hoarder, hog, hunks, moneygrubber, muckworm, niggard, penny pincher, pig, piker, pinchfist, screw, scrimp, scrooge, skinflint, stiff, tightwad
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
big spender, high roller, philanthropist, profligate, spendthrift, squanderer, wastrel
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"Her boss is a bit of a miser, he won't refund her travel expenses."
noun
- (disapproving) someone who has a great desire to possess money and hates to spend it
(Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary)
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WORD ORIGIN
Etymology: circa 1540. Miser is from the Latin miser, meaning unhappy or wretched. The sense of a person who hoards money was first recorded around 1560. Misery (unhappiness) also developed from this same Latin root.
(Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology)
Literature is full of colourful misers including Ebenezer Scrooge (the protagonist in Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol"), Silas Marner (main character of the same-named book from George Eliot); and of course Disney's Scrooge McDuck.
Famous real-life penny-pinchers include Scottish-born American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who was a notorious miser until his older years when he became generous and endowed many charitable organisations like the New York Public Library.
Less famous is Charles Huffman, a miser from the 1950's who was found dead on a street in Brooklyn, New York with no money in his pockets. The police traced him to a cheap hotel room full of bankbooks and more than $500,000 in stock certificates.
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SYNONYMS
shylock, cheapskate, churl, curmudgeon, glutton, hoarder, hog, hunks, moneygrubber, muckworm, niggard, penny pincher, pig, piker, pinchfist, screw, scrimp, scrooge, skinflint, stiff, tightwad
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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ANTONYMS
big spender, high roller, philanthropist, profligate, spendthrift, squanderer, wastrel
(Roget's New Millennium™ Thesaurus)
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IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS TODAY
say something like:
"Her boss is a bit of a miser, he won't refund her travel expenses."
