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Hardfisted

Definition: Hardfisted

Hardfisted

Adjective

1. Unwilling to part with money.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Hardfisted

Synonyms: closefisted (adj), tightfisted (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Hardfisted

Language Translations for "hardfisted"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

със здрави юмруци, със здрави ръце, свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, costive, illiberal, miserly, narrow, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardfistedhay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, mean, mingy, miserly, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neotesan (bluff, boorish, ill mannered, impolite, inurbane, low-browed, mucker, uncouth, unhewn), grubih šaka, škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, mean, miser, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hardfisted

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-f-h-i-r-s-t"

-1 letter: headfirst.

-2 letters: diehards, disrated, faddiest, hardiest, redshift.

-3 letters: addrest, airshed, airthed, aridest, astride, dashier, deafish, dearths, diaster, diehard, disrate, dithers, drafted, drifted, faddier, faddish, faddist, fairest, faithed, farside, fathers, haddest, hafters, hardest, hardies, hardset, hastier, hatreds, ratfish, reddish, redfish, shadier, shafted, shifted, shifter, staider, strafed, tardies, threads, tirades, trashed.

-4 letters: adders, adrift, afresh, afrits.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-f-h-i-r-s-t"
 

+5 letters: featherbeddings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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