niggard
/ˈnɪɡəd
/noun
A mean or ungenerous person; a miser.Tis open before your eyes… and he who owns it is not a niggard in its use....
- They rob the purse of the niggards, punish the wife-beating husband and give headache to the lazy worker.
- Better that, after all, than the niggards who manage not to pay any tax at all from their vast earnings should be blamed.
Origin
Late Middle English: alteration of earlier nigon, probably of Scandinavian origin.