What is "skinflint"

Usage examples of "skinflint".

Rolleston asked eagerly who Skinflint was, and where he could be found.

Outside the port of Valparaiso she fell in with Skinflint, and found him not quite so black as he was painted.

He imagined he looked much like the dead Jacob Marley in a dream he had once, come back to haunt his partner Ebenezer Scrooge into changing his skinflint ways.

A couple of days ago he came to me with a story about his Uncle Timothy, a miserly old skinflint, lousy with money and pretty well broken up by hard living.

When we refugeed from Gae to Karst, the old skinflint charged me a penny for a loaf of bread - a whole penny!

Barbadoes, nor will this skinflint of a captain have the selling of them, for all that he is so cocksure.

And if you can get money out of that old skinflint without a knife against his throat, you will have managed something no one else can do.

An- tigua, as miserly manned as the seediest merchantman with a skinflint for a master.

Next to these came the Princess of Lucre with her sly and crafty followers - a great many of the brood of Simon Skinflint, money lenders, lawyers, userers, stewards, foresters, harlots, and some of the clergy.

He had wangled a space heater out of that skinflint board of selectmen three years ago, and had given up his apartment in town for good.

As one of nature's great skinflints, I am much taken with all the free stuff in America-free parking, free book matches, free refills of coffee and soft drinks, free basket of candy by the cash register in restaurants and cafes.

But although The Lemon Drop Kid now works for a very great old skinflint who even squawks about The Lemon Drop Kid's habit of filling his side pocket now and then with lemon drops out of a jar on the shelf in the store, The Lemon Drop Kid is very happy, for the truth of the matter is he loves Miss Alicia Deering, and it is the first time in his life he ever loves anybody, or anything.

I could have been safe at home, pleasuring myself groggy with Elspeth and sponging off her skinflint father, facing nothing worse than the prospect of bear-leading her family in Society, and here I was imprisoned in a lonely castle with five dangerous lunatics bent on dragooning me into a hare-brained adventure that was certain to put my head in a noose.

It was pathetic, and monstrous, too, when you considered how much the old skinflint had raked together by sweating his mill-workers and cheating his associates.

When we refugeed from Gae to Karst, the old skinflint charged me a penny for a loaf of bread—a whole penny!