Crossword clues for tightwad
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. One who is stingy or overly cautious or defensive with money (usually mildly derisive).
WordNet
n. a miserly person [syn: cheapskate]
Gazetteer
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 (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.306130 N, 93.551381 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64735
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Tightwad
Wikipedia
A tightwad may refer to a miser but may also refer to:
- Tightwad Hill, California
- Tightwad, 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!