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| Language | Translations for "CLOSE-FISTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, grasping, large handed, mean, mingy, miserly, muckworm, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, saving, scrimp, skinflint, snippy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стиснат (cheeseparing, close, curmudgeonly, mean, mingy, near, penurious, sparing, squeezed, tight, tight-fisted), свидлив (avaricious, churlish, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references) | |
Czech | skrblický (cheeseparing, curmudgeonly). (various references) | |
Greek | σφιχτοχέρησ (tightfisted), τσιγγούνησ (cheese paring, mingy, penny pincher, ropy, skimpy). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szûkmarkú (hard-fisted, narrow person, petty person, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Manx | sondagh (avaricious, covetous, greedy, miser, selfish, sordid), peajeogagh (cheese-paring, miserly, parsimonious, pinching, tight, tight-fisted), gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy, stingy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ose-fistedclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pobre (poor, lean, miserable), mesquinho (cheeseparing, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome), improdutivo (sterile, unproductive), estéril (sterile), escasso (scanty, scarce), deficiente (bad, defective, deficient, faulty, lacking, low, meager, meagre, penurious, scanty, scrimp, short, skimpy, under, wanting), avarento (miserly, skinflint, stingy). (various references) | |
Romanian | zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), avar (accumulative, avaricious, churl, churlish, close, grasping, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, penurious, screw, stingy). (various references) | |
Russian | скупой (mingy, miserly, penurious, stingy, tight-fisted), прижимистый (tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | cicijaški (miserly), škrt (avaricious, chary, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Spanish | avaro (grasping, miser). (various references) | |
Swedish | snål (greedy, skimpy, stingy). (various references) | |
Turkish | cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinflint, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous), pinti (cheeseparing, churlish, mangy, miser, parsimonious, screw, skinflint, stingy, tightwad, ungenerous), eli sıkı (hard-fisted, mean, near, shabby, skinny, tight, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kiệt, keo cú (grasping, graspingly, hard, penurious), bủn xỉn (hard-fisted, meanly, miserly, penurious, scrimpy, skimpingly, skimpy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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