wordswarm: free dictionary lookup
look up a word or phrase
My Projects: Payphone Project . USPS Mailbox Locator . Found Photos . "The Etude" Magazine . Discarded Umbrella Carcasses . My Receipts
Telephone Exchange Names . My Film Photography . Sepulchral Portraits . WanderLIC . Old Receipts . Sorabji.ME . Sorabji.com
Wordswarms From Years Past



Adjacent Words

pound away
pound cake
Pound covert
pound mile
pound net
pound of flesh
pound off
Pound overt
pound sign
pound sterling
pound up
Pound-breach
Poundage
poundal
Poundbreach
Poundcake
Pounded
Pounder
Poundian
Pounding
Poundkeeper
Poundmaker
Poundrate
Pounds

Full-text Search for "pound-foolish"
3920

pound-foolish definitions



submit to reddit

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unwise in dealing with large sums

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: from the phrase penny-wise and pound-foolish Date: 1607 imprudent in dealing with large sums or large matters





wordswarm.net: free dictionary lookup