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mi⋅ser

   [mahy-zer]
–noun
1. a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.
2. a stingy, avaricious person.
3. Obsolete. a wretched or unhappy person.
Origin:
1535–45; < L: wretched
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Spanish: avaro, German: der Geizhals, Japanese: けち
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mi·ser     (mī'zər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.
  2. A greedy or avaricious person.


[From Latin, wretched.]

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miser 
1542, "miserable person, wretch," from L. miser (adj.) "unhappy, wretched," of unknown origin. Original sense now obsolete; main modern meaning of "money-hoarding person" first recorded c.1560, from presumed unhappiness of such people. Besides general wretchedness, the L. word connoted also "intense erotic love" (cf. slang got it bad "deeply infatuated") and hence was a favorite word of Catullus. In Gk. a miser was kyminopristes, lit. "a cumin seed splitter." In Mod.Gk., he or she might be called hekentabelones, lit. "one who has sixty needles." The Ger. word, filz, lit. "felt," preserves the image of the felt slippers which the miser often wore in caricatures. Lettish mantrausis "miser" is lit. "money-raker."

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miser

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

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Miser

Mea"sle\, n. [OE. mesel, OF. mesel, LL. misellus, L. misellus unfortunate, dim. of miser. See Miser.] A leper. [Obs.] [Written also meazel, and mesel.] --Wyclif (Matt. x. 8. ).

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