nipcheese

A nipcheese in Scottish-English is a miser, a skinflint; someone who only takes small bites at cheese because they are too stingy to buy more.

the nip is a two pack breakfast Lisa B. 2006

In those days the Quality were very rich in their deaths; and, for my part, I dissent from the starveling and nipcheese performances of modern funerals.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

The purser attempted to stop her, but she called him a good-for-nothing nipcheese, and kicked and cuffed him, while

Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund Anonymous 1829

"Yes; nipcheese means purser of the ship -- you'll find all that out by-and-by; you've got lots to larn, and, by way of a hint, make him your friend if you can, for he earwigs the captain in fine style."

Percival Keene Frederick Marryat 1820

The old nipcheese lies there drunk half the day, and there's no getting at it. "

Condensed Novels Bret Harte 1869

The old nipcheese lies there drunk half the day, and there's no getting at it. "

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869