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Word Meanings - HUNKS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray.

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  • MISERABLENESS
    The state or quality of being miserable.
  • MISERABLE
    1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
  • NIGGARDISE
    Niggardliness. Spenser.
  • SCRIMP
    A pinching miser; a niggard.
  • SCRIMPINGLY
    In a scrimping manner.
  • MISER
    1. A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A despicable person; a wretch. Shak. 3. A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives
  • NIGGARDLY
    In a niggard manner.
  • NIGGARDLINESS
    The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.
  • NIGGARDISH
    Somewhat niggard.
  • HUNKS
    A covetous, sordid man; a miser; a niggard. Pray make your bargain with all the prudence and selfishness of an old hunks. Gray.
  • SCREW-DRIVER
    A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
  • MISERY
    1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16. 2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think
  • NIGGARD
    A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope.
  • MISERLY
    Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.
  • NIGGARDNESS
    Niggardliness. Sir P. Sidney.
  • SCREW-CUTTING
    Adapted for forming a screw by cutting; as, a screw-cutting lathe.
  • MISERICORDE
    See 2 (more info) 1. Compassion; pity; mercy.
  • MISERATION
    Commiseration.
  • MISERABLY
    In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly. They were miserably entertained. Sir P. Sidney. The fifth was miserably stabbed to death. South.
  • SKINFLINT
    A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Sir W. Scott.
  • COMMISERATION
    The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak. Syn. -- See Sympathy.
  • COMMISERATIVE
    Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd.
  • TEMPER SCREW
    1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
  • CORKSCREW
    An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles. Corkscrew starts, a spiral staircase around a solid newel.
  • CHURL
    husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow
  • BREECH PIN; BREECH SCREW
    A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.
  • COMPROMISER
    One who compromises.
  • BINDING SCREW
    A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit.
  • BED SCREW
    1. A form of jack screw for lifting large bodies, and assisting in launching. 2. A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.

 

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