miserly.

Of a person, etc.: miserly, mean, stingy. Now colloquial and regional.

Of a person: miserly, parsimonious. Also in extended use. Now Scottish and poetic.

Mean, miserly; grudging, petty, selfish.

= pinchpenny, adj. Now historical.

Miserly, unwilling to spend or allocate money. rare before late 19th cent.

Relating to or characteristic of a miser; mean, stingy, parsimonious. Also in figurative context.

esp. Money-grubbing, miserly.

chuff-cat n. Obsolete = chuff, n.1 2. chuff-headed adj. Obsolete with a big fat head. chuff-penny adj. Obsolete miserly, avaricious.

Niggardly; miserly. (Cf. wretch, v.) Obsolete.

Miserly, churlish.

Avaricious; miserly, mean.

Of a person: miserly; narrow-minded; (also) bitter, sarcastic.