英语词汇“miser”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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

Late 15th century (as an adjective in the sense 'miserly'): from Latin, literally 'wretched'.

单词	miser
释义	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'. Rhymes adviser, chastiser, coryza, despiser, deviser, divisor, Dreiser, Eliza, incisor, Kaiser, Liza, Mount Isa, provisor, reviser, riser, sizer, visor
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