A mean or niggardly person; a miser. Obsolete.

A mean or miserly person. In early use also more generally: †an unpleasant or reprehensible person (obsolete).

= niggard, n. 1a.

A mean or miserly person.

The ‘shutter of purses’: the title of the demon of miserliness.

A mean, stingy, or parsimonious person; a miser; a person who only grudgingly parts with, spends, or uses up anything. Also in extended use with…

A term of reproach: A mean wretch, a niggard.

A miser; = niggard, n. 1a.

Now frequently as the second element in compounds (see bottom pincher n. at bottom, n. adj.compounds 3… A detractor; a miser, haggler. Now rare.

A mean or stingy person; a skinflint, a miser. Cf. pinch, v. 10.

A miser, a pinchpenny.

depreciative. A person likened to a dried skin; spec. (a) a miserly or mean person, a skinflint; (b) a withered or wizened person. Obsolete.

A mean or miserly person; a skinflint.

spec. One who is sordid, ‘hard’, or stingy in money-matters; a niggard; a miser. Cf. carl, n.1

A miserly person.

spec. One who is churlish or mean in money matters; a grabber; a niggard. Now only Scottish.

A miser, a skinflint; a mean person.

a mean or miserly person.

A mean or miserly person. Now rare.

One that holds fast. A stingy or hard-fisted person; a miser. Obsolete.

= pinchpenny, n. Obsolete.

A tight-fisted person, a miser.

a miser.

(a term of abuse for) a miser.

A ‘close-fisted’ or niggardly person, a miser. (Also attributive).

A tight-fisted or avaricious person, a miser. Obsolete.

a mean person.

Combinations with the verbal stem, as spare-good, spare-penny, spare-thrift.

figurative. A close-fisted person, one who keeps a tight hold of what he has. Obsolete.

a mean, miserly, or self-interested person.

A niggardly or stingy person

A ‘close-fisted’ or grasping fellow; a niggard.

A niggardly person.

One who scrapes; a saving, miserly person.

(See quot. 1699.)

A mean or miserly person.

English regional (East Anglian). A stingy or mean person. Obsolete. rare.

A mean or miserly person. Now rare.

English regional (Yorkshire). A parsimonious person; cf. wire-draw, v. 2c. Obsolete.

One characterized by keeping a close fist, a niggard.

A niggardly or parsimonious person.

= nipfarthing n.

A person who pares (in various senses). Now rare.

miserly, mean.

A stingy or parsimonious person; a skinflint.

A mean-minded or stingy person; a killjoy.

A miserly person; one who keeps his wad of paper money tightly rolled. Also attributive and (rarely) as adj. Also figurative.

A stingy person.

an avaricious or niggardly person.

A mean person; = meanie, n.

slang. A mean, disagreeable, or contemptible person (frequently big stiff). Also jocularly and loosely, a man, a fellow; working stiff, an…