Niggardly (6)
I believe the answer is:
stingy
<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">niggardly</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(similar in meaning)</span><br/ ><br/ >This is the entire clue.<br/ ></span>
(Other definitions for stingy that I've seen before include "near" , "Zola cocotte; Darlings' dog (Barrie)" , "Painful" , "Parsimonious like nettle?" , "Patch of nettles is" .)