pinchpenny

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
26
Letters
10

Definition of pinchpenny

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money.
    “Over the years, he developed a reputation as a pinchpenny who wouldn't spend money for anything.”
    “That they accompt one a dastard if he be not defperate, a pynch penny if he be not prodygall, if filent a fotte, if full of wordes a foole?”

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Etymology

From pinch + penny.

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