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Definition: Penny-wise |
Penny-wiseAdjective1. 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) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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