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dry-fisted

dry-fisted adjective: niggardly; stingy.

Adjective

dry-fisted (comparative more dry-fisted, superlative most dry-fisted)

  1. (archaic) niggardly; stingy
    • dry-fisted knights1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I

Forms of dry-fisted

comparativemore dry-fisted
superlativemost dry-fisted

Questions about dry-fisted

What does dry-fisted mean?
Dry-fisted means niggardly; stingy.
What part of speech is dry-fisted?
Dry-fisted is an adjective.

Words near dry-fisted in the dictionary

  1. dry-eyed
  2. dry-fire
  3. dry-fired
  4. dry-fires
  5. dry-firing
  6. dry-fisted
  7. dry-foot
  8. dry-fried
  9. dry-fries
  10. dry-fry
  11. dry-frying

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