CLOSE-FISTED
ADJECTIVES
1175 ► FAST close-fisted, mean, niggardly → obs.
1600 ► STRAIT-HANDED close-fisted, parsimonious, niggardly, grasping, stingy → obs.
1603 ► HANDFAST close-fisted, tight-fisted
1607 ► FAST-FINGERED close-fisted → obs.
1611 ► FAST-HANDED close-fisted → obs.
1644 ► CLUNCH-FISTED close-fisted, niggardly, covetous, stingy → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1703 ► HARD close-fisted, grasping, penurious, miserly; covetous → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1823 ► PARTAN-HANDED close-fisted, stingy, mean, miserly, grasping, tight-fisted → Sc.
1823 ► RHINY close-fisted, miserly; too stingy to be clean → Sc.
1826 ► IRON-FISTED close-fisted, niggardly, covetous, miserly, stingy, mean
NOUNS, PERSON
1602 ► HUNKS a close-fisted, stingy man
1606 ► CLUNCHFIST a close-fisted person; a miser, a niggardly person → obs.
1622 ► CRIB a close-fisted person, one who keeps a tight hold of what he has → obs.
1652 ► CLUSTERFIST a close-fisted, mean, or grasping fellow; a miserly fellow, a niggard
1700 ► HOG-GRUBBER a close-fisted person; a mean, stingy, sneaking fellow; a miser, a niggard → obs.
1781 ► HASPIN → HESPIN a close-fisted person; a miser; a greedy and over-reaching man → Eng. dial.
19C ► RASPER a close-fisted, economical person → Eng. dial.
19C ► RAZOR-FACE a close-fisted and greedy person → Eng. dial.
1842 ► HUNKSTER a surly, crusty, cross-grained old person; later, a close-fisted, stingy man; a miser
1898 ► MISERD a close-fisted, avaricious person → Sc. & Eng. dial.
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