SAVE, SAVED, SAVING, SAVINGS (store up)
ADJECTIVES
► ECONOMIC thrifty, careful, saving, sparing → 1755 obs.
► HAINED saved, hoarded → 1866 Sc.
► KATIN’ AND SAVIN’ of penurious habits, saving → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WELL-HAINED carefully saved up or hoarded; well protected or maintained → 1786 Sc.
NOUNS
► ADDLINGS wages, earnings; savings → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DARK MOON a woman’s secret savings → 1867 Eng. dial.
► GATHERING the accumulating of wealth, saving; accumulated wealth, savings → 1953 Sc.
► GATHERINGS savings, accumulated wealth → 1821 Eng. dial.
► GROUCH MONEY savings for a really rainy day → 1941 Amer. travelling performers usage
► HAIN a means to thrift, a saving, an economical appliance → 1953 Sc.
► HAINING ► HAININGS earnings, savings → 1823 Sc.
► HALFPENNIES savings, a fortune → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SAVATION a saving; economy → 1724 Eng. dial.
► SAVE an act of saving; a piece of economy → 1906 Eng. dial.
► SAVEAGE the act of saving → 1507 obs.
► SCARTING miserly saving or greed → 1887 Sc.
► SCRAPINS savings of money → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRATTINGS savings got together with difficulty → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCREWAGE savings, profit; covetousness → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► STAKE money saved → 1853 Amer. sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► GATHERER a frugal, saving, thrifty person → 1901 Sc.
► GROSER a thrifty, saving person; one who accumulates wealth → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAINER a thrifty, saving person → 1825 Sc.
► MONEY DOG a person who saves in a mean way or is greedy in money matters → 1970 Amer. dial.
► MONEY HOUND a person who saves in a mean way or is greedy in money matters → 1970 Amer. dial.
► SALVATOR one who saves, rescues, or delivers → a1400 obs.
► SAVE-ALL one who saves or prevents things from being lost or wasted → 1895 (Bk.)
► SCART a saving, industrious person; a niggard; a villain; a fool → 1895 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRAT a saving, industrious person; a mean, niggardly, contemptible fellow; a miser → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRATTER a saving, thrifty, or miserly person → 1881 Eng. dial.
► SNICKET a miser, a stingy, saving person → 1703 Eng. dial. obs.
PHRASES
► HE’S GOT PLENTY SALTED DOWN he has money saved → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LOSE A EWE FOR A HALF-PENNY-WORTH OF TAR to be penny wise and pound foolish; to be so saving in little things as to risk things of value → 1684 Eng. dial.
► LOSE A HOG FOR A HALF-PENNY-WORTH OF TAR to be penny wise and pound foolish; to be so saving in little things as to risk things of value → 1684 Eng. dial.
VERBS
► ADDLE to save; to lay by a portion of one’s earnings → 1860 Eng. dial.
► CATTER to save money, to thrive → 1790 Eng. dial.
► GROSE ► GROZE to save up money; to amass wealth → 1796 Eng. dial.
► HAG to manage well, to be economical, to save → 1899 Sc.
► HAG AND HAIN to scrimp and save → 1908 Sc.
► HAIN to husband, to economize, to use sparingly; to save up, to hoard, to lay by → 1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► HEAM UP to save, to lay by → 1887 Eng. dial.
► HOOVERIZE to save → World War I Amer. sl.
► KEEP ONE FOR RON to keep something for later on → 20C Aust. sl.
► LAY BACK to put aside, to save, to hoard → 1940 Amer. dial.
► LAY IN LAVENDER to lay aside carefully for future use → 1648
► SALT AWAY ► SALT DOWN to hoard or save money or valuables; to store money secretly in order to conceal profits → 1849 sl.
► SCARTLE ► SKARTLE to collect money by long and continuous small savings → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► SCRAT to save; to toil hard; to gain one’s livelihood laboriously; to struggle on → 1859 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRATCH to scrape together; to save → 1900 Eng. dial.
► SCRATTLE to labour hard; to scrape and save → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SHEENY to save money by performing small jobs → 1907 US sl.
► SNUDGE to be miserly, stingy, or saving → c1540 obs.
► SOCK ► SOCK AWAY to put money aside as savings → 1942 colloq.