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Definition of Skinflint

1. Noun. A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.

Definition of Skinflint

1. n. A penurious person; a miser; a niggard.

Definition of Skinflint

1. Noun. one who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser ¹

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Definition of Skinflint

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Skinflint

1. A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Origin: Skin + flint. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinflint

Literary usage of Skinflint

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Present to Youths & Young Men ...: Printed for Private Circulation, and by Edmund] [Shorthouse (1908)
"Even the boys would cry out, " There goes old Skinflint." But the old man bore all this insult with gentleness and patience. ..."

2. The Art of Poetry: The Poetical Treatises of Horace, Vida, and Boileau by Marco Girolamo Vida, Albert Stanburrough Cook, Horace, Nicolas Boileau Despréaux (1892)
"Wealthy skinflint is not much; No, I never will be such. Every day his house he'd close, And within himself would mew; Then he'd tightly close the flue. ..."

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