- a variation of closefisted.
close-fisted
Britishadjective
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Even so variously informed a person as the author of "A Short History of the English People," published in 1875, speaks of the "close-fisted Franklin."
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
By the way hither I had put to proof their liberality; and, finding that they were a couple of your close-fisted gentry, I immediately determined to have amends of them.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I'm not close-fisted, either; I'm willing to share the profits with you as long as you've any use for them."
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas
A grim landlord, hard creditor, close-fisted patron, and a smileless neighbor who neither gambled nor drank, old Hays, as he was called, while yet scarce fifty, had few acquaintances and fewer friends.”
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
He who is close-fisted shall be treated in a like manner.
From Arabian Wisdom by John Wortabet
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