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Penny-wise

Definition: Penny-wise

Penny-wise

Adjective

1. Thrifty in small matters only.

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

Date "penny-wise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

 

Crosswords: Penny-wise

Specialty definitions using "penny-wise": PENNY-WISE AND POUND FOOLISH. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Penny-wise

DomainTitle

Books

  • Money Talks: An Irreverent Guide for the Curious, Penurious, Penny-Wise, and Pound-Foolish (reference)

  • Money-Savvy Kids: Parenting Penny-Wise Kids in a Money-Hungry World (reference)

  • Penny-Wise, Fun-Foolish (reference)

  • Penny-Wise, Party-Perfect Dinners (reference)

  • The Thrifty Investor: Penny-Wise Strategies for Investors on a Budget [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Penny-wise

AuthorQuotation

Francis Bacon

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: Penny-wise

Language Translations for "penny-wise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i shtrënguar në gjëra të vogla. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kicsinyeskedõ (punctilious). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

페니 총명한. (various references)

   

Manx

  

ping-chreeney. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enny-wisepay.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мелочный (hairsplitting, little, meticulous, mingy, niggling, peddling, petty, picayune, small minded, small-minded). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

štedljiv (economic, economical, frugal, managing, parsimonious, saving, sparing, thrifty). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

que escatima en cosas pequeñas. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

småsnål (cheeseparing, cheese-paring). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ufak şeylerde tutumlu. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дріб'язковий (cheeseparing, fribble, mean-spirited, near, niggling, nugacious, nugatory, pettifogging, piddling, toy, trifling). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Penny-wise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-p-s-w-y"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-p-s-w-y"
 

+3 letters: pennyweights, pennywhistle.

 

+4 letters: pennywhistles.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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