pinch-gut
pinch-gut noun: a miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
Noun
pinch-gut (plural pinch-guts)
- A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
- Por. We are my Lady Pinch-guts men, Sir.
Co. Her Men? No, he Mice. We live upon crums,^([sic]) and a good Cat would run away with us all.
[…]
L. W. I wonder at it; my Lords humour is very oppoſite to hers, he loves Grandeur.
Co. So does ſhe, Sir, but hates to pat for't. She will ha' Servants for a...1690, John Crowne, “Lady Pinch-guts Houſe”, in The English Frier, act 2, scene 1, page 9 - Pinch-gut—A mean purser.[1883, William Clark Russell, Sailors' Language, page 103
- Synonyms:
- pinch-back, pinch-belly, pinch-commons, pinch-crust, pinchfist, pinchpenny, pinch-plum
- Por. We are my Lady Pinch-guts men, Sir.
Synonyms of pinch-gut
- pinch-back
- pinch-belly
- pinch-commons
- pinch-crust
- pinchfist
- pinchpenny
- pinch-plum
Forms of pinch-gut
| plural | pinch-guts |
|---|
Origin of pinch-gut
From pinch + gut.
Words formed from pinch-gut
- pinch-gut money
- pinch-gut pay
- pinch-gut ship
- pinch-gut vengeance
- pinch-gutted
Questions about pinch-gut
- What does pinch-gut mean?
- Pinch-gut means a miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
- What part of speech is pinch-gut?
- Pinch-gut is a noun.
- What is the plural of pinch-gut?
- The plural of pinch-gut is pinch-guts.
Words near pinch-gut in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pinch-gut (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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “pinch-gut.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pinch-gut. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.