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Skinflint   /skˈɪnflɪnt/   Listen
Skinflint

noun
1.
A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.  Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge.






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"Skinflint" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'em out. What brand of discipline do you call this? All hands laying a-bed at four in the morning. I've been up all night. Called by messenger just as I turned in at that confounded tavern, charged full price for a night's lodging,—curse that skinflint Hodges!—and took a coach that brought me to Salem as fast as it could clip over the road. I'm too fat to straddle a horse. Come, where's Hamlin and that young ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes



Words linked to "Skinflint" :   scrooge, niggard, churl, pinchgut, hoarder



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