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“Miser is a grumpy person who lives in the past, instead of the present”, was the definition people used in the US before 2016.
Yeah, no. Charles Dickens used the word to describe his character Ebenezer Scrooge as a greedy old penny-pincher, in A Christmas Carol. That book was written in the 1800's, and it was a commonly used word even then.
The definition you're using, simply doesn't apply. That's not what that word has ever meant.
miser is not the same as "greedy old penny-pincher"
BUT WHY DO YOU THINK THIS? Cite your sources. Not memories. Not ideals.
Try posting an actual link like this, that uses your definition.
Upon what evidence do you make this assertion? It's always meant your "current" definition across my several decades of life.
miser does not mean someone who is a cheapskate, it means a "grumpy person who prefers living in the past"
Please provide a citation for this definition.