Piker

n. (slang) (1) a cautious gambler; (2) person who's regarded as petty or stingy (also Aussie-speak for someone who doesn't pull his own weight, or chickens out)

"Me/ two wives, that's my limit. I'm a piker next to my brother. His new one's in her thirties. Half his age. Jerry's the doctor who marries the nurse. All four, nurses. They revere the ground Dr. Levov walks on. Four wives, six kids. That drobe my dad a little nuts. But Jerry's a big guy, a gruff guy, the high-and-mighty prima donna surgeon--got a whole hospital by the short hairs--and, so, even my dad fell in line...."

--Philip Roth, American Pastoral

George contributed a few suggestions of his own during the discussions, touches here and there to move the operation into the realm of high-concept, so it wouldn't look like it was run by a bunch of pikers. "He wanted us to provide him with a nice yacht of his own for him to sail down to Columbia on from his escape, something about a hundred feet long. We'd give him all this money, and he'd have all these women on board, have access to an airplane when he'd got there , one he could call up when he wanted. He wanted to be set up like a millionaire...."

--Bruce Porter, Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Mil. with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All

*Continuing the theme of nouns that describe people.