Both Uses of
meager
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
- Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered instalments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of "something" to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not.†
p. 41.4meagre = lacking in quantity or qualityunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use meager.
- Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish; but prostrate, too, in their humility.†
p. 89.9 *