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pinchpenny
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pinchpenny \Pinch"pen`ny\, n. A miserly person.
Usage examples of pinchpenny.
If he could sway the thinking of a pinchpenny like Lord Thigpen, what chance did a starry-eyed innocent like Dulcie Bennett have should he turn those powers of persuasion on her?
It was a great solid granite block with little pinchpenny ecclesiastical windows in which goods darkly lay A board above a barred door said Peace Militant.
He was a pinchpenny of the worst sort who condoned no waste of time on nonproductive activity.
For if I were a god, I might well be bribed by blood offerings to send good luck, but a man so pinchpenny that he merely annoyed me with mealy-mouthed prayers I would stamp onthus!
The former Earl of Wynwood must have been a dreadful old pinchpenny to let one of his properties come to this.
He made sure Freddie never had to beg for money and Freddie, while not a pinchpenny, was careful to live within his allowance.
Now the luggage handlers would remember them as one more pair of passengers with a heavy bag, one more tip, not as some pinchpennies who insisted on wrestling their own bag through tight passageways.