Usually means: Lacking generosity; stingy with money.
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  1. dry-fisted: Wordnik
  2. dry-fisted: Wiktionary
  3. Dry-fisted: Dictionary.com
  4. Dry-fisted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. dry-fisted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Dry-fisted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. dry-fisted: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Dry-fisted: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (archaic) niggardly; stingy

Similar:
close-fisted, hard-fisted, narrow-fisted, tight-fisted, scanty, strait-handed, near, cheeseparing, narrow-gutted, stingy, more...

Opposite:
generous, open-handed, liberal

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Similar:
close-fisted, hard-fisted, narrow-fisted, tight-fisted, scanty, strait-handed, near, cheeseparing, narrow-gutted, stingy, more...

Opposite:
generous, open-handed, liberal



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