- a variation of closefisted.
close-fisted
Example Sentences
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Mr. Bumpkin looked for a few moments without speaking, and then said: “He wur allays a close-fisted un, and I should reckon have a goodish bit o’ property.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
I ain't a close-fisted chap, especially when I'm fond of anybody.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
This has lost its original meaning of desiring possession of other people's things and is used only in the sense of close-fisted.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll
You've spent a lot of the money you're so close-fisted about, and will have to travel cheap if you mean getting home again.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
"I'm not close-fisted, either; I'm willing to share the profits with you as long as you've any use for them."
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
