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pinch-commons

pinch-commons noun: a miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.

Noun

pinch-commons

  1. (obsolete) A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
    • She listened to them with a haughty and unmoved air, and replied at length aloud, and in English—"I will not. What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning—where would be the world's want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited? They will needs...1822, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Pirate
    Synonyms:
    pinch-back, pinch-belly, pinch-crust, pinchfist, pinch-gut, pinchpenny, pinch-plum

Synonyms of pinch-commons

Origin of pinch-commons

From pinch + commons.

Questions about pinch-commons

What does pinch-commons mean?
Pinch-commons means a miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
What part of speech is pinch-commons?
Pinch-commons is a noun.

Words near pinch-commons in the dictionary

  1. pinch runner
  2. pinch runners
  3. pinch-bellies
  4. pinch-belly
  5. pinch-belly vengeance
  6. pinch-commons
  7. pinch-fisted
  8. pinch-gut
  9. pinch-guts
  10. pinch-hit
  11. pinch-hits

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