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Definition: Cheeseparing |
CheeseparingAdjective1. Giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: CheeseparingSynonyms: close (adj), near (adj), penny-pinching (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cheeseparing |
| English words defined with "cheeseparing": close ♦ near ♦ penny-pinching. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cheeseparing": Cheeseparing Economy. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "cheeseparing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | شىء ضئيل القيمة (farthing), شح (littleness, miserliness, parsimony, stinginess), بخيل (avaricious, mean, miserly, shy, skimpy, skinflint, spare, sparing, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стиснатост (nearness, parsimony), стиснат (close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, mean, mingy, near, penurious, sparing, squeezed, tight, tight-fisted), нещо незначително. (various references) | |
Czech | skrblictví, skrblický (close-fisted, curmudgeonly). (various references) | |
French | pingre, de rapiat, avarice. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eeseparingchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sovice, mesquinho (close-fisted, costive, despicable, illiberal, little, logy, mangy, mean, mingy, miserly, niggling, peddling, penurious, pimping, pitiable, scaly, scrubby, scurvy, small, sordid, stingy, unhandsome), avareza (avarice, avidity, cupidity, miserliness, parsimony, piggery, pigpen). (various references) | |
Spanish | tacaño (cheapie, cheapskate, close, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightwad), economías pequeñas. (various references) | |
Swedish | struntsaker, småsnålhet, småsnål (cheese-paring, penny-wise), knusslig (close, costive, illiberal, parsimonious, skimpy, stingy, ungenerous). (various references) | |
Turkish | cimri (chary, cheapskate, 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), pinti (churlish, close-fisted, mangy, miser, parsimonious, screw, skinflint, stingy, tightwad, ungenerous), hesapçı kimse, değersiz şey (damn, falderal, gold brick, junk, lemon, rag, shoddy, slush, small beer, stiver, trifle, trumpery). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупість (closeness, covetousness, illiberality, meanness, miserliness, parsimony, tightness), скупий (chary, churlish, clam, close-fisted, 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), що труситься над кожною копійкою, кірка сиру, дріб'язковість (hair splitting), дріб'язковий (fribble, mean-spirited, near, niggling, nugacious, nugatory, penny-wise, pettifogging, piddling, toy, trifling). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cheeseparing": cheeseparings. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cheeseparing" (pronounced 'Cheese"par`ing'): Aforegoing, Almsgiving, Backbiting, Batfowling, Birdcatching, Bird's-nesting, Bluestocking, Bookbinding, Bookkeeping, Bookselling, Boxhauling, Bricklaying, Broadspreading, Bushfighting, Bushwhacking, By-drinking, By-turning, Cabinetmaking, Cat-harping, Childbearing, Churchgoing, Clear-seeing, Clear-shining, Costeaning, Cowleeching, Crib-biting, Cross-reading, Cross-tining, Cross-vaulting, Deerstalking, Findfaulting, Fly-catching, Forespeaking, forthcoming, Forthputing, Fox-hunting, free-living, Free-milling, freethinking, Gaingiving, Glass-gazing, god-fearing, good-looking, Handwriting, haymaking, heartbreaking, heartrending, high-sounding, Home-coming, Home-dwelling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-g-h-i-n-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: repechages. | |
-3 letters: creepages, creeshing, earpieces, enciphers, eparchies, escarping, esperance, garnishee, preaching, rechanges, regencies, repechage, reshaping, respacing, scarphing, searching. | |
-4 letters: agencies, anergies, archines, archings, aspheric, capering, carpings, chagrins, changers, cheapens, cheapies, cheepers, cheeping, cheering, cheesier, cheesing, crashing, creasing, creepage, creepies, creeping, earpiece, enchaser, encipher, energies, energise, enriches, ensphere, epergnes, epicenes, escaping, generics, gesneria, graphics. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-g-h-i-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: cheeseparings. | |
+5 letters: encephalographies. | |
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