Every day we go to the restaurants/ pubs/ cafe with friends or relatives. No matter, it’s a cocktail party, or a collation (light meal) or a lavish dinner you savored, you have to pay the bills. I hope, you are not in a mood to swindle, or bilk (to pay partially inorder to cheat) today, but do haggle (hya dai, beer lai pani 200 lagaidine?? Ali milaunus na!!) yaar. Who pay the bill usually, you or yours frens? Based on the behavior you and your friends displayed while paying the bill, let’s know which falls into which category.
- Niggardly (adj): meanly stingy; parsimonious
- Profligate (adj): dissipated; wasteful; wildly immoral
: using money or resources in a way that wastes them; extravagant - Parsimonious (n): stinginess; excessive frugality
- Prodigal (adj): wasteful; reckless with money, extravagant, lavish
use: the prodigal gambler soon found hat he could not afford even a one dollar bet.
- Spendthrift (n): someone who wastes money recklessly or wastefully
use: Rich spendthrift never save enough; but the poor always manage to save something (Chinese Proverb) - Skinflint (n): stingy person; miser
- Tightwad (n): excessive frugal person; miser
- Miser (n): stingy person; mean
- Frugal (n): thrift; economy
- Thrifty (adj): careful about money or economical
- Wastrel (n): a lazy person who wastes her/his time, money, etc
Syn: profligate; extravagant
Remembering formula: Do remember / discuss these words whenever you go to restaurants with your friends, you can name your friends accordingly for fun and remembrance.
1 comment:
can scrooge be included here?
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