feast(1) (iou) and niggardly(1) (iou)

feast(1) (iou)

feast noun. [fi:st] ME.
[Old French feste (mod. fete), from Latin festa neut. pl. (taken as fem. sing. in Proto-Romance) of festus festal, joyous. Cf. FeTE noun.]
A religious anniversary observed with rejoicing. ME.
b. An annual village festival (orig. held on the feast-day of the saint to whom the parish church is dedicated). M16.
A sumptuous meal or Entertainment; a banquet, esp. public, for many guests. Also formerly, a series of such entertainments. ME.
Bunyan Mr. Carnal Security did again make a feast for the town of Mansoul.
Rejoicing, festivity. ME-M17.
An ample and delicious meal; fig. delight or gratification to the mind or senses. LME.
T. Gray Voices, that were a perfect feast to ears that had heard nothing but French operas. Tolkien The evening meal seemed a feast..Wine..bread and butter, and salted meats, and dried fruits, and good red cheese.
Phrases: double feast: see DOUBLE adjective & adverb. feast of EXPIATION. feast of reason intellectual talk. feast of weeks: see WEEK noun. immovable feast a religious feast celebrated on the same date every year. make feast (a) arch. make merry; feast; (b) show honour or respect to, make much of (a person); fete. movable feast a religious feast of which the date varies from year to year; joc. a meal etc. taken at no regular time.
Comb.: feast-day: on which a feast is held.

niggardly(1) (iou)

niggardly adjective. M16.
[from NIGGARD noun + -LY1.]
Having or displaying an unwillingness to give, spend, or use anything up; mean, miserly. (Foll. by of, with.) M16.
T. R. Malthus The earth had been so niggardly of her produce. R. K. Narayan Never knew people could be so niggardly with cucumber. C. G. Wolff She was apparently not above the most niggardly retaliation.
Such as a niggard would give; meanly small, scanty, closely limited; given grudgingly. L16.
Economist America's foreign aid has become notoriously niggardly.
niggardliness noun L16.

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