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skin·flint

 (skĭn′flĭnt′)
n.
One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
[From the earlier expression to skin a flint, to go extreme lengths to obtain an often paltry reward or advantage, from the time-consuming process of removing the cortex from a flint nodule before knapping off flakes from the core for use as gunflints or other tools (since flint nodules found in beds of limestone and chalk typically have a whitish outer cortex of various minerals that was often removed before knapping).]
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skinflint

(ˈskɪnˌflɪnt)
n
an ungenerous or niggardly person; miser
[C18: referring to a person so avaricious that he would skin (swindle) a flint]
ˈskinˌflinty adj
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skin•flint

(ˈskɪnˌflɪnt)

n.
a mean, stingy person; miser; niggard.
[1690–1700]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.skinflint - a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spendskinflint - a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend
niggard, scrooge, churl
hoarder - a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use
pinchgut - a niggardly person who starves himself (and others)
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skinflint

noun
A stingy person:
miser, niggard, Scrooge.
Informal: penny pincher.
Slang: cheapskate, stiff, tightwad.
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Translations
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skinflint

[ˈskɪnflɪnt] N → tacaño/a m/f, roñoso/a m/f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

skinflint

[ˈskɪnflɪnt] n → grippe-sou mskin graft n → greffe f de peau
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

skinflint

[ˈskɪnˌflɪnt] n → taccagno/a, spilorcio/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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But with a variation--I will not ask for the money and ruin myself; I will ROB the old skinflint."
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Fitchett laughing and shaking her head slowly, with an interjectional "Sure ly , sure ly !"--from which it might be inferred that she would have found the country-side somewhat duller if the Rector's lady had been less free-spoken and less of a skinflint. Indeed, both the farmers and laborers in the parishes of Freshitt and Tipton would have felt a sad lack of conversation but for the stories about what Mrs.
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Glegg himself was stingy in the most amiable manner; his neighbors called him "near," which always means that the person in question is a lovable skinflint. If you expressed a preference for cheese-parings, Mr.
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"Charley," said I, "you are a wicked old fraud, a miserly skinflint, a miserable land crab.
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He had earned for himself the reputation of an awful skinflint, of a miser in the matter of living.
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We say: "I desire to be kind to my friends, honourable in business, philanthropic towards the poor, public-spirited in politics." So long as we refuse to allow ourselves, even in the watches of the night, to avow any contrary desires, we may be bullies at home, shady in the City, skinflints in paying wages and profiteers in dealing with the public; yet, if only conscious motives are to count in moral valuation, we shall remain model characters.
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