Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes use of contemptible means to get or save money; a mean, niggardly, or avaricious person; a miser.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who is excessively
stingy orcautious withmoney ; atightwad ; amiser
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
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Examples
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Eilert, though, is known as a skinflint, and that sells in times like these.
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Eilert, though, is known as a skinflint, and that sells in times like these.
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He didn't seem to be too bothered by his 'skinflint' reputation.
Grim laughs: A question on humor and crime fiction Peter Rozovsky 2010
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But you know you have now made Bubba's "skinflint" list for having even made a complaint about it.
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_kyminopristes_ ( "skinflint"), a cumin-seller, as it were, because he makes a great fuss about things of little value.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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'skinflint' husband after 12 largely unhappy years of marriage, that he hit her head with a hammer at least seven times.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Ensconced at First Lutheran Church in Back Bay, the venue provided some questionable Boston hospitality via the city's skinflint approach to parking — a meter maid was already lurking as I fed my quarters; the concert featured multiple announcements of which cars were in the process of being towed.
Authentication keys Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Stephen Taaffe's penetrating look at the Army's "one indispensable man," by contrast, skirts the chief of staff's more conspicuous duties, such as coaxing funds out of a skinflint Congress, locking horns with Winston Churchill over grand strategy and training millions of civilians to wage war.
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Benny, rather than turning over his wallet he nurtured a reputation as a notorious skinflint crosses his arms, furrows his brow, taps his lips, and stares into space.
David Burwell: Our Global Choice: Asserting U.S. Leadership on Climate and Energy David Burwell 2011
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Ensconced at First Lutheran Church in Back Bay, the venue provided some questionable Boston hospitality via the city's skinflint approach to parking — a meter maid was already lurking as I fed my quarters; the concert featured multiple announcements of which cars were in the process of being towed.
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abraxaszugzwang commented on the word skinflint
Can't believe I'm a skinflint.
March 4, 2007
slumry commented on the word skinflint
Someone who would skin a flint if s/he could. And could gain from it.
Much like blood from a turnip
July 12, 2007