ungenerous; stingy; cheap (greedy to keep one’s own for oneself; unwilling to share) · miserly; closefisted (unwilling to spend one’s money; excessively economical) · greedy; avaricious; rapacious
çekim: karşılaştırma geiziger · üstünlük am geizigsten
eş: knauserig, knickerig, sparsam
köken: Alteration (due to German Geiz) of Middle High German gītic, gītich, gītec, from Old High German gītag, equivalent to Geiz + -ig. Doublet of geitig.
köken: Of unknown origin. McGregor tentatively postulates a combination of कान (kān, “ear”) + चूसना (cūsnā, “to suck”), lit. "ear-sucked"; compare मक्खीचूस (makkhīcūs, “miser”, literally “fly-sucker”) for a similar formation.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese mesquinno (“poor”) (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn). Compare Portuguese mesquinho and Spanish mezquino, Sicilian mischinu.