Definition of "niggler" [nig•gler]

• One who niggles; a constant critic. (noun)

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• "Each writer has his method; Scott was no stipples or niggler, but, as we shall see later, he often altered much in his proof-sheets."
• "There is here an objection which will arise in the mind of every niggler and boggler who has in the past very properly been covered with ridicule and become the butt of the waiters and stable-yard, which is, that if one is ignorant of the local sport, there is an end to the business."
• "As for the potterer and the niggler, the men and women whose stroke goes no farther back than their knuckles, I may frankly say that charcoal is not for them."