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skinflints

skinflints is the plural of skinflint.

Meaning of skinflint

Noun

skinflint (plural skinflints)

  1. One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.
    • You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck.1842, Gogol, Dead Souls, chapter 4

Questions about skinflints

What is skinflints the plural of?
Skinflints is the plural of skinflint.

Words near skinflints in the dictionary

  1. skinfeel
  2. skinflick
  3. skinflicks
  4. skinflint
  5. skinflintiness
  6. skinflints
  7. skinfluencer
  8. skinfluencers
  9. skinflute
  10. skinflutes
  11. skinfold

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