Crossword clues for cheeseparing
cheeseparing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheeseparing \Cheese"par`ing\, n. A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a. Scrimping; mean; as, cheeseparing economy.
Wiktionary
niggardly, stingy alt. (present participle of cheesepare English) n. A small fragment or sliver. v
(present participle of cheesepare English)
WordNet
adj. giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: close, near, penny-pinching]
Usage examples of "cheeseparing".
Conrad could remember, and since he was both cheeseparing and forgetful of his appearance, his wig was badly made, ancient and ill-fitted.
A combination of cheeseparing cautionusing privateers for outsystem operations cost less than funding a real space navyand exuberant flouting of the rules, such as they were, that governed such uses.
What a pity she was too cheeseparing to spend a night in a modest inn.
Like all men who have had the management of much money, he is a tightfisted, cheeseparing old miser.
And the dinner ordered will enable Madame to show what she can do, a chance she rarely gets from cheeseparing customers, like Brian and me, and others of our ilk.
But the Doge Species, with the inveterate habit of merchants, had designed their equipment with a cheeseparing attitude.
And let me tell you, there is going to be no cheeseparing in this house again.
Jack Polgrey, who was an extravagant man compared with his cheeseparing father, had given a harvest dance afterwards and there had been fiddlers in the big barn.
I scrimped and saved, like a cheeseparing miser for the past five years trying to keep his estates in order, his crofts producing, and his vineyards turning a profit single-handed, while he diddled about on the Peninsula.
He wasn't a suspicious person by nature, but the way things kept breaking by twos and threes aboard DS9 sometimes made him think that it couldn't all be assigned to Cardie cheeseparing.