Skinflint

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Skinflint

Postby Stargzer » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:38 pm

For BD, who hates the word Cheapskate:

Skinflint:
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

skinflint

SYLLABICATION: skin·flint
PRONUNCIATION: sknflnt
NOUN: One who is very reluctant to spend money; a miser.
I was going to include etymology information, but the Online Etymology Dictionary seems to have disappeared into that great Internet Bit Bucket.
Regards//Larry

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Postby Brazilian dude » Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:44 pm

Skinflint I like.

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