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nipfarthings

nipfarthings is the plural of nipfarthing.

Meaning of nipfarthing

Noun

nipfarthing (plural nipfarthings)

  1. (obsolete) A miser.
    • I woulde the not a nipfarthinge, / nor yet a niggarde haue, / Wilte thou therefore, a drunkard be, / a dingthrifte, and a knaue?1566, “1st satire”, in Drant, Thomas, transl., A Medicinable Morall, translation of Satires by Horace
    Synonyms:
    miser

Questions about nipfarthings

What is nipfarthings the plural of?
Nipfarthings is the plural of nipfarthing.

Words near nipfarthings in the dictionary

  1. nipcheeses
  2. nipecotic
  3. nipecotic acid
  4. niperotidine
  5. nipfarthing
  6. nipfarthings
  7. niphablepsia
  8. niphargid
  9. niphargids
  10. niphatenone
  11. niphatenones

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