Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
bowsey bowsie | a mean person. |
cheapskate | a miserly or stingy person. |
cheeseparing | stingy; (noun) the act of being stingy. |
chinchy | stingy > CHINCHIER, CHINCHIEST. |
closefisted | tight, stingy. |
curmudgeon | an avaricious, ill-natured churlish person; a miser. |
curmudgeonly | like a CURMUDGEON. |
fritterer | one who fritters. |
frugal | careful with one's resource > FRUGALLY. |
frugality | the state of being FRUGAL. |
grippy | inclined to avarice > GRIPPIER, GRIPPIEST. |
hoarder | one who hoards. |
hunks | a miserly curmudgeon > HUNKSES. |
ironfisted | miserly. |
kunjoos | mean or stingy. |
lickpenny | an absorber or devourer of money. |
luxurist | one given to luxury. |
mammonist mammonite | one devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. |
meanie meany | a mean person. |
minginess | meanness, stinginess. |
mingy | mean, stingy > MINGIER, MINGIEST; MINGILY. |
miser | one who hoards money greedily. |
miserly | mean, tight-fisted > MISERLIER, MISERLIEST. |
muckworm | a person who acquires money by mean devices; a miser. |
niggard | a stingy person > NIGGARDLY; (verb) to behave in a niggardly way > NIGGARDS, NIGGARDING, NIGGARDED. |
niggardise niggardize | niggardliness, meanness. |
niggardly | like a NIGGARD, stingy. |
nipcheese | a skinflint; a ship's purser. |
parsimonious | exhibiting or marked by parsimony; esp frugal to the point of stinginess > PARSIMONIOUSLY. |
pennywise | careful with small amounts of money. |
pinchcommons | a niggard with food > PINCHCOMMONSES. N.B. no PINCHCOMMON*. |
pinchfist | a closefisted person; a miser. |
pinchgut | a niggard. |
pinchpenny | a miserly person. |
prodigal | a wastrel, a spendthrift. |
profuser | a prodigal or spendthrift. |
scattergood | a spendthrift. |
scrapegood | a miser. |
scrapepenny | a miser, a skinflint. |
scrimp | to be overly thrifty. |
scrunt | (Scots) a niggard; anything stunted. |
skinflint | a miser; a niggard. |
skinflinty | stingy, like a SKINFLINT. |
snoep | (S. Afr.) tight-fisted. |
snudge | a mean, stingy person; (verb) to save in a miserly way. |
spendall | a spendthrift. |
spender | one who spends. |
spendthrift | one who spends his money recklessly. |
splurge | to spend a lot of money on. |
splurger | one who splurges. |
squanderer | one who squanders. |
stinge | a mean person. |
stingy | mean, niggardly > STINGIER, STINGIEST; STINGILY; (noun) a stinging nettle: STINGIES. |
stinty | niggardly > STINTIER, STINTIEST. |
thrift | care in husbanding one's resource. |
thriftiness | the state of beign THRIFTY. |
thrifty | showing THRIFT > THRIFTIER, THRIFTIEST. |
tightfisted | reluctant to part with money. |
tightfistedness | the state of being TIGHTFISTED. |
tightwad | a stingy person. |
waster | (Scots) to spend prodigally. |
wasterful | prodigal. |
wasterfulness | prodigality. |
wastry wasterie wastery wastrie | (Scots) prodigality. |
wastrel | a spendthrift. |
wastrife | (Scots) wastefulness. |