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pinchcommons

pinchcommons is the alternative form of pinch-commons.

Meaning of pinch-commons

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

Questions about pinchcommons

What is pinchcommons the alternative form of?
Pinchcommons is the alternative form of pinch-commons.

Words near pinchcommons in the dictionary

  1. pinchbars
  2. pinchbeck
  3. pinchbecks
  4. pinchcock
  5. pinchcocks
  6. pinchcommons
  7. pincheck
  8. pinchecks
  9. pinched
  10. pinched a loaf
  11. pinched at

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