"Curmudgeon" is a word in ENGLISH
An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a
churl.
If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.
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An Irish priest and a Rabbi get into a car accident. They both get out of their cars and stumble over to the side of the road. The Rabbi says, "Oy vey! What a wreck!" The priest asks him, "Are you all right, Rabbi?" The Rabbi responds, "Just a little shaken." The priest pulls a flask of whiskey from his coat and says, "Here, drink some of this it will calm your nerves." The Rabbi takes the flask and drinks it down and says, "Well, what are we going to tell the police?" "Well," the priest says, "I don't know what your aft' to be tellin' them. But I'll be tellin' them I wasn't the one drinkin'."
adj. /NA-/ covetous, grasping, avaricious, greedy. v. /AG-, MANG-:-EN/ to covet. Dika agameng ti dimo kukua. Don’t covet what is …
Read the complete definitionActuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
Read the complete definitionAvaricious.
Read the complete definitionadj. /NAG-/ avaricious, greedy, gluttonous. --syn. RAWET.
Read the complete definitionInordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.
Read the complete definitionn. desire, wish. adj. /NA-/ desirous; greedy, covetous, avaricious. v. /MANG-:-AN/ [= ESMAN] to desire, long for; to covet. Saan …
Read the complete definitionClose-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
Read the complete definitionAvaricious; greedy of gain; covetous; close; miserly; as, he is a grasping man.
Read the complete definitionHaving a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain.
Read the complete definitionhakugán - Avaricious, greedy, covetous, voracious, ravenous, gluttonous; a glutton, gourmand, gormandizer; expensive, costly. (cf. hákug; maámbas).
Read the complete definitionhukahuk a greedy, having an intense desire to possess. Ang táwung hukahuk gustung íya tanan, An avaricious person wants to …
Read the complete definitionmaabáng - (B) Greedy, covetous, avaricious, avid, grasping. (abáng).
Read the complete definitionmahákug - Expensive, wasteful, needing much, greedy, avid, avaricious, ambitious, causing great outlay. (cf. hákug, maámbas, kostóso).
Read the complete definitionmalánggab - Covetous, desirous of, ambitious, wishful, avid, eager for, avaricious, wishing or anxious for. (cf. lánggab, maibugón).
Read the complete definitionAvaricious; niggardly; miserly.
Read the complete definitionpanginyáwat - To be avaricious, covetous of more, be (inordinately) eager to increase one’s possessions, to be selfish or greedy; …
Read the complete definitionadj. /NAG-/ greedy, voracious, avaricious. --syn. RAWET. RADIO [f. Eng.], n. radio.
Read the complete definitionAvaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
Read the complete definitionTo collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions by laborious effort; hence, to …
Read the complete definitionOne who acquires avariciously and saves penuriously.
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