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tightwad

[ tahyt-wod ]

noun

Informal.
  1. a close-fisted or stingy person.


tightwad

/ ˈ³Ù²¹Éª³ÙËŒ·ÉÉ’»å /

noun

  1. slang.
    a stingy person; miser
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tightwad1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; tight + wad 1
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That year, tightwad Brown vetoed the entire budget.

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To be sure — nobody in Dipoto’s position is going to say “we had three or four whales lined up if only our tightwad chairman would have opened up his checkbook.â€

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Dear Carolyn: My friend’s daughter is getting married and the groom’s parents are tightwads.

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And what D.C. fans endured after tightwad Clark Griffith sold Bucky Harris in the late 1920s and traded the rest of the talent away from the Senators in the mid-1930s.

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The results of the survey by CRC Research are consistent with previous polls showing that by and large, Americans are climate tightwads.

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