- a variation of closefisted.
close-fisted
Britishadjective
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You've spent a lot of the money you're so close-fisted about, and will have to travel cheap if you mean getting home again.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
He was a close-fisted, mysterious old fellow, and—well, I decided to get out.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster
It is on record that he got five pounds from the close-fisted old lady Queen Charlotte, and two guineas from the royal profligate her eldest son.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
The close-fisted aristocrat felt himself fairly driven into a corner.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
In fact, his appearance was quite the reverse of pleasing, but he was an honest, close-fisted man, I dare say.’
From Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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