Apedia

Cheeseparing Adj Careful Stingy Money Man Wealth Price

Word cheeseparing
Definition adj. Careful or stingy with money.
Sentence To a man of your wealth as the price of your safety? You show a cheeseparing spirit which I do not like to see. Fight against it.
Source Uncle Fred in the Springtime, The Best of Wodehouse, p. 561

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Adonis n handsome young man mustard it  is 

Previous card: I assegai n slender iron-tipped spear southern african

Up to card list: Unusual and Literary English Vocabulary