miser
/ˈmʌɪzə
/noun
A person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible: a typical miser, he hid his money in the house in various places...
- This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins.
- He's also a terrible miser, hoarding gold in his attic while his poor young wife - who has agreed to the arrangement only to protect her woefully indebted father - wants for the smallest pat of butter.
- After a tension-filled pause, Benny, a notorious miser and tightwad, said, ‘I'm thinking, I'm thinking.’
Synonyms
penny-pincher, pinchpenny, niggard, cheese-parer, Scrooge;
hoarder, saver, collector, gatherer, accumulator, magpie, squirrel;
ascetic, puritan
informal skinflint, meanie, money-grubber, cheapskate
North American informal tightwad
vulgar slang tight-arse
Origin
Late 15th century (as an adjective in the sense 'miserly'): from Latin, literally 'wretched'.