miser
mahy zer
- n a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
- The Allen persona the urban boy-chik as social misfit is, of course, an act, a put-on, no more the real performer than Chaplin's tramp or Jack Benny's miser.
- Scrooge boasts Albert Finney in the title role of the flinty miser who learns the true meaning both of Christmas and his own life.
- Actually the stingy Nizam, said to possess a miser's horde of $500,000,000 in gold apart from other wealth totaling $2,000,000,000, is not exactly his people's joy, much less .