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tight-fisted

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tight-fisted
adjective miserly, mean, stingy, close, tight, sparing, grasping, parsimonious, niggardly, penurious, close-fisted, tight-arse (taboo slang), tight-arsed (taboo slang), mingy (Brit. informal), tight-ass (U.S. taboo slang), tight-assed (U.S. taboo slang), snoep (S. African informal), tight as a duck's arse (taboo slang) the government's tight-fisted monetary policy
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tight-fisted [ˈtaɪtˈfɪstɪd] ADJ (= mean) [person] → tacaño, agarrado
tight-fisted [ˌtaɪtˈfɪstɪd] adj (fam) → avaro/a, tirchio/a
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