A stingy or ungenerous person; one who is or is behaving niggardly. Despite popular belief, the word is actually historically considered highly offensive. Should not be confused with the word nigger, which is also highly offensive, but in a different way. In everyday speech, the two words sound nearly identical, so it's a good rule of thumb to save the word for print. It's considered pretty archaic anyway, so it's probably not a good idea to use it in any context unless you want to offend someone who has a less developed vocabulary.
See niggardly, niggardliness.
See niggardly, niggardliness.
Person With a Large Vocabulary: Why won't you give me a dollar? You're such a niggard.
Person With a Small Vocabulary: WHAT'D YOU JUST CALL ME?!
Person With a Large Vocabulary: I called you a niggard. You know: stingy, not generous, generally not the kind of person you'd want to hang out with.
Person With a Small Vocabulary: Now you're just being racist!
Person With a Small Vocabulary: WHAT'D YOU JUST CALL ME?!
Person With a Large Vocabulary: I called you a niggard. You know: stingy, not generous, generally not the kind of person you'd want to hang out with.
Person With a Small Vocabulary: Now you're just being racist!
by lovesmesumcake October 18, 2008
Get the Niggardmug. A general feeling of uncleanliness, sometimes used to suggest that somebody has an STD. Usually remedied by a good douching on the part of girls or possibly an enema for guys.
From a mid-80s commercial for Massengill brand douche.
From a mid-80s commercial for Massengill brand douche.
by lovesmesumcake December 16, 2008
Get the Not-So-Freshmug. by lovesmesumcake October 14, 2008
Get the aslmug. The only high school in Beverly Hills, California. Pretty much a dumping ground for everybody in the city who's own local high schools sucks, like most high schools in the city do, yet who actually care about getting a public education. One of if not the safest and best public high schools in the Los Angeles area.
In movies and TV shows, Beverly is usually portrayed as being full of preppy, rich Beverly Hills stereotype kids. This isn't necessarily true: anybody who has money goes to a private school, which means most of the kids who live in Beverly Hills don't even go to Beverly.
Also a popular place to go for kids who get kicked out of private school, sometimes more than once.
In movies and TV shows, Beverly is usually portrayed as being full of preppy, rich Beverly Hills stereotype kids. This isn't necessarily true: anybody who has money goes to a private school, which means most of the kids who live in Beverly Hills don't even go to Beverly.
Also a popular place to go for kids who get kicked out of private school, sometimes more than once.
Person 1: Hey man, what school do you go to?
Person 2: I go to Beverly.*
Person 1: Oh, that's cool. Did you get kicked out of Harvard-Westlake?
Person 2: No, but my regular district school is Uni**, so I transferred to Beverly.
Person 1: Oh man, good choice.
* "Beverly" is short for "Beverly Hills High School"
** "Uni" is short for "University High School," another Los Angeles high school.
Person 2: I go to Beverly.*
Person 1: Oh, that's cool. Did you get kicked out of Harvard-Westlake?
Person 2: No, but my regular district school is Uni**, so I transferred to Beverly.
Person 1: Oh man, good choice.
* "Beverly" is short for "Beverly Hills High School"
** "Uni" is short for "University High School," another Los Angeles high school.
by lovesmesumcake October 12, 2008
Get the Beverly Hills High Schoolmug. From the Oxford English Dictionary:
ass ban•dit
noun - vulgar slang (also ass burglar)
1. a male homosexual sodomite or pederast.
2. an eager seducer of young women
ass ban•dit
noun - vulgar slang (also ass burglar)
1. a male homosexual sodomite or pederast.
2. an eager seducer of young women
1. NAMbLA is composed entirely of ass bandits.
2. Carl, the 40-year-old man with a handlebar mustache and a receding hairline, is a creepy fucking ass bandit.
2. Carl, the 40-year-old man with a handlebar mustache and a receding hairline, is a creepy fucking ass bandit.
by lovesmesumcake October 15, 2008
Get the Ass Banditmug. A type of photography invented by the Lomographic Association, a company founded in the early 90s in Austria to market the Lomo LC-A, a cheap Russian camera which the founders had discovered took strange, high-contrast photos that often featured vignetting (the focus goes soft and the image darkens around the edges).
Today Lomography is mainly used to describe the "art" of taking photos with a Lomographic camera, or any camera sold by the Lomographic Association (popular examples include the Fisheye, Lomo LC-A, and Holga). The term is also sometimes used to describe photography using any cheap or quirky cameras.
The Lomographic Society has come under very severe criticism for several points, the main one being that the company seems to sell cameras and photographic equipment for far, far more than it's worth. Notable examples include the Lomo LC-A itself, which was around $30 USD when the original Lomographers first purchased it, yet sells for around $250, or the new Diana+, an updated version of a camera that originally sold for $1 that is currently sold by Lomography for $50. The Lomographic Society also seems to emphasize wild experimentation with (expensive) film, which some point out might be a ploy to get consumers to purchase more film from the Lomographic Society themselves.
Recently (as in early 2007-ish), the Urban Outfitters chain of stores have begun to stock Lomographic cameras, giving the brand a much larger audience to cavort around green pastures snapping photos willy-nilly and calling it art.
(As much as I hate the Lomographic Society for their sales practices, I must admit that I do regularly use my Lomo LC-A, as well as my Holga and my Diana+. I also buy film from them very often. Hey, it's a mean business practice, but Lomography is fun as shit.)
Today Lomography is mainly used to describe the "art" of taking photos with a Lomographic camera, or any camera sold by the Lomographic Association (popular examples include the Fisheye, Lomo LC-A, and Holga). The term is also sometimes used to describe photography using any cheap or quirky cameras.
The Lomographic Society has come under very severe criticism for several points, the main one being that the company seems to sell cameras and photographic equipment for far, far more than it's worth. Notable examples include the Lomo LC-A itself, which was around $30 USD when the original Lomographers first purchased it, yet sells for around $250, or the new Diana+, an updated version of a camera that originally sold for $1 that is currently sold by Lomography for $50. The Lomographic Society also seems to emphasize wild experimentation with (expensive) film, which some point out might be a ploy to get consumers to purchase more film from the Lomographic Society themselves.
Recently (as in early 2007-ish), the Urban Outfitters chain of stores have begun to stock Lomographic cameras, giving the brand a much larger audience to cavort around green pastures snapping photos willy-nilly and calling it art.
(As much as I hate the Lomographic Society for their sales practices, I must admit that I do regularly use my Lomo LC-A, as well as my Holga and my Diana+. I also buy film from them very often. Hey, it's a mean business practice, but Lomography is fun as shit.)
Person 1: Hey, I just got a Holga from Urban Outfitters.
Person 2: Cool, dude! You just had $10 burning a hole in your pocket, did you?
Person 1: What the fuck? That thing cost me $75!
Person 2: What a rip. Also, know that the film for those things is $5 a roll, not including development, which you'll have to get done at a specialty camera store because drug stores don't develop that kind of film.
Person 1: FUCK.
Person 2: That's Lomography for you.
Person 2: Cool, dude! You just had $10 burning a hole in your pocket, did you?
Person 1: What the fuck? That thing cost me $75!
Person 2: What a rip. Also, know that the film for those things is $5 a roll, not including development, which you'll have to get done at a specialty camera store because drug stores don't develop that kind of film.
Person 1: FUCK.
Person 2: That's Lomography for you.
by lovesmesumcake October 10, 2008
Get the Lomographymug. by lovesmesumcake October 14, 2008
Get the Muscle Carmug.