Read full poem →She that should love him must look for small love in return,--like the ivy
On the stone wall, must expect but a rigid and niggard support, and
E'en to get that must go searching all round with her humble embraces.
Dictionary Entry
A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
Origin
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Common Phrases
hand niggard. niggardnature niggardsoil niggardspirit niggardniggard beauteous
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Poetry examples for “niggard”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Felton! without incitements such as these,
How vain for me the niggard Muse to tease:
For thee, she will thy every dwelling grace,
Read full poem →Meandering and musical, 95
Though the niggard pasturage
Bears not on its shaven ledge
Read full poem →My earthly lot as guilty of my spleen,
Or call my destiny niggard ! O no ! no !
It is her largeness, and her overflow,
Read full poem →She would relive to me.
But niggard Nature’s trick of birth
Bars, lest she overjoy,
Read full poem →And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Read full poem →And hang more praise upon deceased I
Than niggard truth would willingly impart:
O! lest your true love may seem false in this