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Skinflint definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SKIN'FLINT, n. (skin and flint) A very niggardly person.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1700 a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means ; miser

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a miserly person.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Skinflint Skin"flint`, n. [Skin + flint.] A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. --Sir W. Scott.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(skinflints) If you describe someone as a skinflint, you are saying that they are a mean person who hates spending money. N-COUNT [disapproval]