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Definition: Cheapskate |
CheapskateNoun1. A miserly person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Dutch (krentekakker). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: CheapskateSynonym: tightwad (n). (additional references) |
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| "Cheapskate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cheapskate" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cheapskate | 108 |
cheapskate monthly | 88 |
cheapskate gazette | 7 |
cheapskate everyday | 7 |
cheapskate living | 3 |
cheapskate unitedmedia.com | 3 |
cheapskate hunt mary | 3 |
cheapskate newsletter | 3 |
cheapskate monthly.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cheapskate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Geizhals (curmudgeon, meanie, miser, scrooge, shylock, skinflint, tightwad). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eapskatechay.(various references) | |
Russian | скряга (clam, close file, curmudgeon, flay-flint, hunks, miser, muckworm, nickel nurser, scrooge, skinflint, tightwad), скопидом (penny pincher, tightwad), крохобор, мелкая душонка. (various references) | |
Spanish | tacan~o (cheapie, tightwad), tacaño (cheapie, cheeseparing, close, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightwad). (various references) | |
Turkish | cimri (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, 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), avantacı kimse. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cheapskate": cheapskates. (additional references) | |
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"Cheapskate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chapska, cheapstake, chiasmata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cheapskate" (pronounced khē"pskā't) |
| 4 | -s k ā' t | confiscate, obfuscate. |
| 3 | -k ā' t | allocate, aluminosilicate, abdicate, adjudicate, authenticate, bifurcate, communicate, complicate, implicate, dedicate, deprecate, domesticate, educate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, extricate, fabricate, inculcate, indicate, intoxicate, locate, lubricate, medicate, misallocate, pontificate, predicate, prefabricate, prognosticate, reciprocate, rededicate, reeducate, replicate, sophisticate, suffocate, truncate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-k-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: cheapest, teacakes. | |
-3 letters: apaches, caseate, chaetae, escheat, hackees, hepcats, ketches, packets, pakehas, patches, peaches, pectase, takahes, teacake, teaches. | |
-4 letters: ackees, apache, aspect, casket, chaeta, chapes, chaste, cheaps, cheats, cheeks, cheeps, epacts, escape, etapes, etches, haceks, hackee, hepcat, pachas, packet, pakeha, peaces, peseta, sachet, scathe, sketch, spahee, spathe, speech, taches, takahe, thacks, thecae. | |
-5 letters: aceta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-h-k-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: cheapskates. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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