- a variation of closefisted.
close-fisted
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By the way hither I had put to proof their liberality; and, finding that they were a couple of your close-fisted gentry, I immediately determined to have amends of them.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is on record that he got five pounds from the close-fisted old lady Queen Charlotte, and two guineas from the royal profligate her eldest son.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
I ain't a close-fisted chap, especially when I'm fond of anybody.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
"I can answer for it, he's devilish close-fisted as to money," said Stocmar, laughing.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
Hence misers and close-fisted men disguise their propensity and conduct under the name of economy; whereas the most liberal disposition, a disposition precisely the contrary of that of the miser, is perfectly consistent with economy.
From Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend by William Cobbett
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