Reverse Dictionary: PARSIMONIOUS

ADJECTIVES
​► CAREFUL parsimonious, mean → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CHINCH miserly, parsimonious, mean → 1300 obs.
► GAIR parsimonious, niggardly; thrifty, careful → 1788 Sc. obs.
► GRIPPY having a tendency to be avaricious or parsimonious → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HARD-HANDED miserly, parsimonious → 1587 obs.
► IKEY mean, parsimonious, stingy → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► IKEYMO mean, parsimonious, stingy → 1996 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► INHOLDING frugal, penurious, parsimonious → 1897 Sc.
► MISERD miserly, parsimonious → 1825 Sc. 
► MOOTIE parsimonious, niggardly → 1905 Sc.
► NARROW sparing, close, parsimonious, mean, stingy → a1225 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► NARROW-SOULED mean, stingy, parsimonious, ungenerous →  a1700 N. Eng. dial.
► NEAR niggardly, miserly, stingy, parsimonious, frugal, mean, greedy, covetous  → 1616
► NEAR-SIGHTED stingy, frugal, parsimonious → c1820 Amer. dial.
► NEWIS ► NEWOUS earnestly desirous, covetous, greedy, parsimonious → 1808 Sc. 
► NIGGARDOUS niggardly, parsimonious, stingy → a1492  obs.
► NIGGISH niggardly, miserly, stingy, mean, parsimonious → 1542 obs.
► SAVE-ALL parsimonious, stingy, miserly → 1812
► SCANT sparing, parsimonious → 1819 Sc.
► SCHINCHING niggardly, parsimonious, stingy → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SNIPPY parsimonious, mean; covetous → 1727 Eng. dial.
► STRAIT-HANDED close-fisted, parsimonious, niggardly, grasping, stingy → 1600 obs.
► TIGHT AS A BULL’S ARSE IN FLY TIME extremely parsimonious → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► TIGHT AS A FISH’S ARSE extremely parsimonious → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► TIGHT AS KELSEY’S NUTS very parsimonious; stingy → 1950s US sl.
► TIGHT AS O’REILLY’S BALLS ► TIGHT AS REILLY’S BALLS very parsimonious; stingy → 1950s US sl.
► TIGHT parsimonious; tight-fisted; stingy → 1805 sl.
► YALD mean, niggardly, parsimonious → 1825 Sc. obs.

ADVERBS
► NARROWLY sparingly, parsimoniously → a1225 obs.
► NEAR thriftily; parsimoniously, meanly → a1625
► NEARLY parsimoniously, frugally → 1592

NOUNS
► FASTSHIP the quality of gripping tightly; parsimony, meanness, niggardliness → a1225 obs.
► GAIRNESS carefulness in money matters, parsimony → 1812 Sc. obs.
► INHOLDING frugality, parsimoniousness → 1660 Sc.
► NEARNESS parsimony, niggardliness; frugality → 1584
► SKINFLINTINESS niggardliness, miserliness, parsimony → 1861
► SKINFLINTISM niggardliness, miserliness, parsimony → 1893

NOUNS – PERSON
► DRY-FIST a miserly, niggardly, stingy or parsimonious person → 1604 obs.
► NEET a parsimonious person; a niggard → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► NIGON a parsimonious person, a niggard, a miser → 1303 obs.
► NIPCHEESE a mean or miserly person; a parsimonious, covetous person; a skinflint → 1825
► PENNY-FATHER a man who is too careful of his pence; an old miser, a niggard, a skinflint, a parsimonious person → 1549 obs.
► PINCH-COMMONS one who stints the supply of food for himself or others; a parsimonious or stingy person; a miser, a niggard → 1822
► WINNER-NEB a spare, thin-faced person with a sharp nose; a stingy, parsimonious person → 1905 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)

PHRASES
► HE WOULDN’T SHOUT IN A SHARK ATTACK said of an exceptionally parsimonious person, or of a dull-witted one → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
► CHINCH to be parsimonious or stingy; to hoard wealthy like a miser → 1425 obs.
► NIP to be stingy, to practise parsimony → 1757 Sc.