Pinchgut

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A miserly person.
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  • noun. a niggardly person who starves himself (and others)
  • Word Usage
    "If one bends over backwards to avoid such epithets as spend -, slip - or slidethrift, spillgood, or scattergood, one incurs hostile mutters of sparethrift or sparegood, scrapepelf or scrape-good, pinchfist or skinflint (also flay - or fleaflint), pinchgut"
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