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A miserly person
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tightwad
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Word definitions for tightwad in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who is stingy or overly cautious or defensive with money (usually mildly derisive).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"parsimonious person," 1900, from tight in the figurative sense of "close-fisted" (1805) + wad (n.). The notions of stringency and avarice also combine in Modern Greek sphiktos "greedy," literally "tight."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a miserly person [syn: cheapskate ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tightwad may refer to a miser but may also refer to: Tightwad Hill , California Tightwad, Missouri
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 63 Housing Units (2000): 33 Land area (2000): 1.000207 sq. miles (2.590525 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.007169 sq. miles (0.018567 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.007376 sq. miles (2.609092 sq. km) FIPS code: 73240 Located within: Missouri ...
Usage examples of tightwad.
The tightwad former premier of Ontario had closed or amalgamated many hospitals across the province.
However, the businesswoman in her stopped her from being all-out rude to a customer--even a tightwad like George Dollar.
I would have asked him, of course, because, even if a tightwad, I am still polite, but the obviousness of his waiting annoyed me.
But the elder Titus Vettius being a tightwad of the first order, and too old to be the father of a twenty-year-old besides, young Titus Vettius borrowed the money at exorbitant interest, pledging his entire inheritance as collateral.
Was she just a tightwad, or did she have a reason for never spending a penny of her own money?
These tightwads were commended to the old ford downstream from the bridge.
And then we' re off, heigh ho for the wild blue yonder, the misty sea of the north pole, where no Santa Claus, but somebody who's given us gifts that make Saint Nick look like the world's worst tightwad, lives!