Skinflint

Definition: Skinflint

Skinflint

Noun

1. A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.

Date "skinflint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Note: Skinflint \Skin"flint`\, noun. [Skin flint.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Skinflint A pinch-farthing; a niggard. In the French, "pince-maille." Maille is an old copper coin. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Skinflint

Synonyms: churl (n), niggard (n), scrooge (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Parsimony	Miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm, scrimp, lickpenny, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian; pinch fist, pinch penny.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Skinflint

Specialty definitions using "skinflint": Skin a Flint. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Skinflint (1912)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sacred to the memory of Josiah Skinflint --. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Skinflint" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Skinflint" is used about 17 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)	94.12%	16	87,710
Noun (proper)	5.88%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

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.

Language		Translations for "skinflint"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, niggard, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, stingy, tight-fisted, tightwad, turn-penny), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, close-fisted, grasping, large handed, mean, mingy, miserly, muckworm, niggard, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, saving, scrimp, snippy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Arabic		‏الخسيس (cur, wretch), ‏الشحيح (niggard, tightwad), ‏البخيل (churl, miser, niggard, screw, tightwad), ‏بخيل (avaricious, cheeseparing, mean, miserly, niggard, niggardly, shy, skimpy, spare, sparing, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Bulgarian		скръндза (niggard, piker, scrape-penny, skin), пинтия (grab-all, muckworm). (various references)

Chinese		吝啬鬼. (various references)

Czech		lakomec (hunks, miser, scraper), škrob (miser, starch). (various references)

Dutch		schraper (miser, niggard), vrek (miser, niggard), gierigaard (miser, niggard), duitendief (miser, niggard). (various references)

Esperanto		avarulo (miser, niggard). (various references)

Farsi		خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Miserly, Niggardly, Penurious, Scotchman, Scrimpy, Skimpy, Sordid, Stingy, Stringent, Tight, Ungenerous), جوکی , ادم ممسک , ادم دندان گرد. (various references)

French		radin, pingre, ladre, grippe-sou, chiche (skimpy), cabot, avare (skimpy). (various references)

Frisian		nepert (miser, niggard), krintekakker (miser, niggard), izegryn (miser, niggard), gjirrigert (miser, niggard), frek (miser, niggard), earn (eagle, miser, niggard). (various references)

German		Knicker (curmudgeons, Scrooge). (various references)

Greek		φιλάργυροσ (avaricious, illiberal, miser, miserly, muckworm, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, sordid, stingy, ungenerous), τσιγκούνησ (parsimonious, piker, stingy, tightfisted). (various references)

Hebrew		קמצן (mean, mingy, miser, miserly, niggard, stingy). (various references)

Hungarian		zsugori (avaricious, churlish, costive, curmudgeon, fisty, mingy, miser, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, pinching, screw, screwy, shabby, sordid, stingy, thrifty, tightwad, to flay a flint), fösvény (avaricious, churlish, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, miserly, money grubber, near, niggard, parsimonious, pelting, penurious, shabby, stingy, tightwad). (various references)

Italian		scorticatore (knacker), avaro (avaricious, close, grasping, greedy, hard-fisted, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, near, niggard, penurious, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tightwad). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		悋嗇 (miser, miserliness, niggard, pinching pennies, stinginess, tightwad), 吝嗇 (miser, miserliness, niggard, pinching pennies, stinginess, tightwad). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		り�"しょく (miser, miserliness, niggard, pinching pennies, stinginess, tightwad), けち (miser, miserliness, niggard, pinching pennies, stinginess, tightwad). (various references)

Korean		구두� . (various references)

Manx		sonderey (coveter, money-grubber, selfish person). (various references)

Pig Latin		inflintskay

Portuguese		avarento (avaricious, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, hunky-dory, ironic, mean, miser, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, scraper, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Romanian		zgripţor (brute, griffin), zgârie-brânzã (a regular screw, an old screw, cheese paring), 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, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, sparing, stingy, tight), harpagon (curmudgeon), frige-linte, ciufut (whimsical), calic (beggar, cadger, cripple, glutton, greedy, pauper, ragamuffin, ragged, tatterdemalion). (various references)

Russian		скряга (cheapskate, clam, close file, curmudgeon, flay-flint, hunks, miser, muckworm, nickel nurser, niggard, scrooge, tightwad). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tvrdica (chuff, churl, hoarder, miser, moneybag, moneygrubber, scrooge, tightwad), cicija (miser, moneybags, niggard, scrooge). (various references)

Spanish		tacaño (cheapie, cheapskate, cheeseparing, close, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, niggard, niggardly, penny-pinching, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightwad). (various references)

Swedish		gnidare (curmudgeon, miser, niggard). (various references)

Thai		คนขี้เหนียว (niggard). (various references)

Turkish		pinti (cheeseparing, churlish, close-fisted, mangy, miser, niggard, parsimonious, screw, stingy, tightwad, ungenerous), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, churlish, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, illiberal, light purse, long purse, mangy, mean, measly, mingy, miser, near, niggard, parsimonious, penny pincher, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, scrimp, scrimpy, Scrooge, shabby, shylock, skimp, skimpy, skin, skinny, sordid, spare, stingy, tight, tight purse, tight-fisted, tightwad, ungenerous). (various references)

Ukrainian		скнара (chuff, churl, clam, codger, curmudgeon, miser, nip-cheese, piker, save-all, scraper), гицель. (various references)

Vietnamese		người vắt cổ ch� y ra mỡ, người keo kiệt (miser, niggard). (various references)

Welsh		sinach (balk, waste ground), cribin (rake). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	avarus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "skinflint": skinflints. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Skinflint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sainfoin, skinflit. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-i-i-k-l-n-n-s-t"
	-3 letters: flints, instil, kinins, linins.
	-4 letters: finis, finks, flint, flits, intis, kilns, kilts, kinin, knits, lifts, linin, links, linns, lints, skint, slink, stink, tikis.
	-5 letters: fils, fink, fins, fist, fits, flit, ilks, inks, inns, inti, kifs, kiln, kilt, kins, kist, kits, knit, lift, link, linn, lins, lint, list, lits, nils, nisi, nits, sift, silk.
	Words containing the letters "f-i-i-k-l-n-n-s-t"
	+1 letter: skinflints.
	+3 letters: franklinites.
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