- a variation of closefisted.
close-fisted
Britishadjective
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He who is close-fisted shall be treated in a like manner.
From Arabian Wisdom by Wortabet, John
"There's many a poor thing has no father, close-fisted or no, to fall back upon."
From Leonore Stubbs by Walford, L. B.
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 Brontë, Charlotte
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 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The adventurers were apt to be of a sordid class, ravenous, close-fisted, little likely to make themselves beloved.
From Irish History and the Irish Question by Smith, Goldwin
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