MISER (miser)

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Irregular inflected form: miser   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does miser mean? 

• MISER (noun)
  The noun MISER has 1 sense:

1. a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)

  Familiarity information: MISER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("miser" is a kind of...):

hoarder (a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miser"):

cheapskate; tightwad (a miserly person)

Derivation:

miserly ((used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity)

 Context examples 

“Oh, what a pretty bird!” said the miser; “I would give a great deal of money to have such a one.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Mrs. March would not leave Beth's side, but rested in the big chair, waking often to look at, touch, and brood over her child, like a miser over some recovered treasure.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A flower of yours, that I may treasure it as a miser does gold.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Well, don't be a miser with what you know," Scott said sharply, after waiting a suitable length of time.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He never allowed Godfrey a shilling in his life, for he is an absolute miser, but it will all come to him right enough.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He clutched it avariciously, looked at it as a miser looks at gold, and thrust it into his shirt bosom.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He had the character of a great miser; and, to my misfortune, he well deserved it, by the cursed advice he gave my master, to show me as a sight upon a market-day in the next town, which was half an hour’s riding, about two-and-twenty miles from our house.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Every moment was drive, drive, drive, and Joe was the masterful shepherd of moments, herding them carefully, never losing one, counting them over like a miser counting gold, working on in a frenzy, toil-mad, a feverish machine, aided ably by that other machine that thought of itself as once having been one Martin Eden, a man.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Meanwhile the miser crept out of the bush half-naked and in a piteous plight, and began to ponder how he should take his revenge, and serve his late companion some trick.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But he gripped his life with a miser's clutch and would not let it go.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)