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penny-pinches

penny-pinches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of penny-pinch.

Meaning of penny-pinch

Verb

penny-pinch (third-person singular simple present penny-pinches, present participle penny-pinching, simple past and past participle penny-pinched)

  1. To be very parsimonious or stingy.

Questions about penny-pinches

What is penny-pinches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Penny-pinches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of penny-pinch.

Words near penny-pinches in the dictionary

  1. penny-pigs
  2. penny-pinch
  3. penny-pinched
  4. penny-pincher
  5. penny-pinchers
  6. penny-pinches
  7. penny-pinching
  8. penny-pinchings
  9. penny-post
  10. penny-posts
  11. penny-wedding

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Adapted from Wiktionary: penny-pinches (page history and authors); penny-pinch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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