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. |