skinflint
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈskɪnflɪnt/
- Offensive
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tacaño
- Everyone agrees that he is a notorious skinflint who refuses to part with a single dollar.
Examples
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Everyone knows he's the most miserable skinflint ever to walk God's earth.
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Well, something Bulger said last night just didn't fit in with his skinflint business methods.
Fiction book (2001) -
The old villain is too much of a skinflint to equip his presses properly.
Academic text (1995) -
- A skinflint, a petty tyrant, and a hypocrite to boot!
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The old skinflint offered eighty centavos for it, which I had no recourse but to accept.
Fiction book (1991) -
You're a bald-headed, penny-pinching skinflint.
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My uncle is such a skinflint that he won't even buy a coffee when we go out.
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No one invites Harold to dinner because he's known as a real skinflint who never pays his share.
Synonyms
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7.0
A person who does not like to spend money
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6.5
A person who keeps most of their money and refuses to spend it, even if they are rich
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8.7
A person who does not like to spend money
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9.9
A person who does not want to spend money or take risks
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8.5
A person who refuses to spend money or share with others
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9.3
A person who does not like to spend money
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5.8
A person who spends very little money to save as much as possible
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9.8
A person who does not like to spend money
A person who does not like to spend money
Antonyms
How Stingy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Skinflint comes from two simple words, skin and flint. A helpful way to remember it is to picture someone so tight with money they are 'hard as flint' and would try to 'skin' even a rock to save a penny, so a skinflint is a very 'stingy' person.