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CLOSE-FISTED

Modern Translation: CLOSE-FISTED

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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