skinflint
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 9
Definition of skinflint
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.
“You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
Words you can make from skinflint
95 playable · top: FILKS (12 pts)
Best play filks 12 points6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
18 words4-letter words
39 words- FILK 11 pts
- FINK 11 pts
- KIFS 11 pts
- ILKS 8 pts
- INKS 8 pts
- KILN 8 pts
- KILT 8 pts
- KINS 8 pts
- KIST 8 pts
- KITS 8 pts
- KNIT 8 pts
- LINK 8 pts
- SILK 8 pts
- SINK 8 pts
- SKIN 8 pts
- SKIT 8 pts
- TIKI 8 pts
- FILS 7 pts
- FINS 7 pts
- FIST 7 pts
- FITS 7 pts
- FLIT 7 pts
- LIFT 7 pts
- SIFT 7 pts
- INNS 4 pts
- INTI 4 pts
- LINN 4 pts
- LINS 4 pts
- LINT 4 pts
- LIST 4 pts
- LITS 4 pts
- NILS 4 pts
- NISI 4 pts
- NITS 4 pts
- SILT 4 pts
- SLIT 4 pts
- SNIT 4 pts
- TILS 4 pts
- TINS 4 pts
3-letter words
25 words2-letter words
8 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
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