PENNY WISE

Definition: PENNY WISE

PENNY WISE

1. Wise or prudent only in small matters; saving small sums while losing larger; -- used chiefly in the phrase, penny wise and pound foolish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Literature

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Caprice

Adjective: capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims; Noun: maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety, kinky, particular, humorsome, freakish, skittish, wanton, wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable; penny wise and pound foolish; fickle; (irresolute); frivolous, sleeveless, giddy, volatile.

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Prodigality

Penny wise and pound foolish.

Unskillfulness

Unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted, foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish; (inconsistent).

Waste

Wasteful; (prodigal); penny wise and pound foolish.

Penny Wise (1970)

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Books

• Penny Wise (reference)

• Penny Wise. (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "PENNY WISE": penny wise and pound foolish. Additional references.

Hungarian

krajcároskodó (scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy), krajcáros. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

爪で拾って箕で零す (penny wise and pound foolish). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つめでひろってみで�"ぼす (penny wise and pound foolish). (various references)

Pig Latin

ennypay iseway.(various references)

Romanian

scump la tãrâţe ş ieftin la fãinã (penny wise and pound foolish). (various references)

Turkish

ufak şeylerde hasis büyük şeylerde müsrif (penny wise and pound foolish). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khôn từng xu, đắn đo từng xu; khôn việc nhỏ. (various references)

Boletus edulis var. edulis, Lysimachia nummularia. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: pennies, pinenes, spinney, swinney.

-3 letters: newies, newsie, pennis, pinene, sinewy, spinny, sweeny, sweepy, weensy.

-4 letters: neeps, nenes, newie, newsy, nines, peens, peins, peise, penes, penis, penne, penni, penny, pines, piney, pinny, pyins, seepy, seine, sinew, snipe, spine, spiny, sweep, swine, swipe, weens, weeny, weeps, weepy, wenny, wines, winey, wipes, wispy, wynns, yipes.

-5 letters: espy.

+3 letters: pennyweights, pennywhistle.

+4 letters: pennywhistles.