Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Unwilling to give or spend money; penny-pinching.
- adjective Characterized by scarcity of money.
- noun A penny pincher.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A niggard.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A miserly person.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
spends littlemoney ; one who is veryfrugal orcautious with money.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Known as a shrewd pinchpenny, he was once caught stealing a fan out of the offices of Western Union, where he was a board member.
Boing Boing 2007
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Alan Campbell for The Wall Street Journal Orient Golf founder T.K. Pen His 10-course Orient Golf chain also differs from the norm: While many of the courses springing up in recent years have been luxury layouts, Mr. Pen has taken a more pinchpenny approach, aiming to bring the game within reach of Chinese executives on the rise, not just those who already have arrived.
A Different Course 2009
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How I would have loved to seen Cusack turn back on just one of these pinchpenny haints and say You want my soul?
Stay scared Arbogast 2009
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He had, Hornsby told me, a reputation as a pinchpenny.
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He had, Hornsby told me, a reputation as a pinchpenny.
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Another reason can be a pinchpenny attitude on the part of municipal authorities toward sewage treatment.
The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.
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Mrs. Gower was suspicious of her son; but she knew her brother for a pinchpenny, exacting the last drop of what he regarded as his own.
The Price She Paid. 1911
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Mrs. Gower was suspicious of her son; but she knew her brother for a pinchpenny, exacting the last drop of what he regarded as his own.
The Price She Paid David Graham Phillips 1889
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But I am glad I saw him, Whig and pinchpenny as he was.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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The Fighter is another pinchpenny production it cost $25 million to
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