piker

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I do not begrudge him is wealth (except he is known as a piker to boot); I excoriate the both of them for their two-faced-ness.

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  1. noun Slang A cautious gambler.
  2. noun Slang A person regarded as petty or stingy.

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  • With a sand gravel voice that would give Batman the chills and a no-mercy attitude that makes The Punisher look like a piker, this trench-coated vigilante with an shifting ink blot mask is the go-to psychopath in an alternate, and morally bleak 1980's world where costumed heroes have been outlawed.
  • I do not begrudge him is wealth (except he is known as a piker to boot); I excoriate the both of them for their two-faced-ness. —  GraniteGrok
  • If Obama gets in, the "crisis" will worsen and he will make FDR look like a piker by comparison. —  Latest Articles
  • "I'll kill the danged piker--that bank ain't broke yet--I got a big roll, right here He waved it in the air and came limping forward until he stood facing Rimrock Jones You think you broke me, do you?" —  Rimrock Jones
  • No man dare run the risk of being dubbed a piker. —  Private Peat
 

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  1. Possibly from Piker, a poor migrant to California, after Pike County in eastern Missouri.

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  1. from pike + -er.
  2. pike, v., + -er.
 

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/ˈpaɪkər/
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