Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A niggard; a miser.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A closefisted person; a miser.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
miser .
Etymologies
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pinch + fist
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Examples
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If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut
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