skinflint
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈskɪnflɪnt/
skinflint (plural skinflints)
- One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.
- 1842, Gogol, Dead Souls, chapter 4
- You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck.
- 1842, Gogol, Dead Souls, chapter 4
- See also Thesaurus:miser
- French: radin, radine, avare
- German: Geizhals, Geizkragen, Knauser, Knauserin, Knicker, Knickerin, Pfennigfuchser, Pfennigfuchserin
- Italian: avaro, avara
- Portuguese: avaro, avara, pão-duro
- Russian: скря́га
- Spanish: avaro, avara, tacaño, tacaña
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