Usually means: Extremely frugal, reluctant to spend.
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  1. pinchpenny: Merriam-Webster
  2. pinchpenny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pinchpenny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pinchpenny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pinchpenny: Wordnik
  6. pinchpenny: Wiktionary
  7. pinchpenny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pinchpenny: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Pinchpenny, pinchpenny: Dictionary.com
  10. Pinchpenny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pinchpenny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Pinchpenny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pinchpenny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. pinchpenny: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pinchpenny: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money.

Similar:
pincher, pickpenny, pinch-commons, pelter, pennies on the dollar, pinchcommons, penny, pinchfist, pennyworth, lickpenny, more...

Opposite:
generous, lavish, extravagant

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Similar:
pincher, pickpenny, pinch-commons, pelter, pennies on the dollar, pinchcommons, penny, pinchfist, pennyworth, lickpenny, more...

Opposite:
generous, lavish, extravagant



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