tightwad

[ tahyt-wod ]

/ ˈtaɪtˌwɒd /

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noun Informal.

a close-fisted or stingy person.

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Origin of tightwad

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900; tight + wad¹

Words nearby tightwad

tights, tight ship, tight shot, tight spot, tight squeeze, tightwad, tightwire, tighty-whities, Tiglath-pileser I, Tiglath-pileser III, tiglic

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How to use tightwad in a sentence

I asked him for a drink, and he couldnt see it, the tightwad!
Cursed|George Allan England
Id like to have cleaned the old tightwad for a decent roll, while I was at it!
Cursed|George Allan England
He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.
Main Street|Sinclair Lewis
It is a hard situation for a class that is constitutionally tightwad, often wisely so.
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty|Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

She claims to be generous but actually she is a terrible tightwad.
A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan|John U. Wolff

British Dictionary definitions for tightwad

tightwad

/ (ˈtaɪtˌwɒd) /

noun

slang, mainly US and Canadian a stingy person; miser

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tightwad

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