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Definition: Tightwad |
TightwadNoun1. A miserly person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Tightwad is a village located in Henry County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 63.Geography
Tightwad is located at 38°18'22" North, 93°33'5" West (38.306130, -93.551381)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.99% is water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 63 people, 28 households, and 18 families residing in the village. The population density is 24.3/km² (63.0/mi²). There are 33 housing units at an average density of 12.7/km² (33.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 95.24% White, 0.00% African American, 3.17% Native American, 1.59% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 28 households out of which 21.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.3% are married couples living together, 0.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 35.7% are non-families. 25.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.25 and the average family size is 2.78. In the village the population is spread out with 17.5% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 34.9% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 47 years. For every 100 females there are 103.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.0 males. The median income for a household in the village is $24,375, and the median income for a family is $51,250. Males have a median income of $35,417 versus $30,625 for females. The per capita income for the village is $18,981. 16.7% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 21.4% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tightwad, Missouri."
Synonym: TightwadSynonym: cheapskate (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tightwad (1917) Training a Tightwad (1913) The Tightwad Binks (1913) Why Tightwad Tips (1912) | |
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1. Tightwad, MO (village, FIPS 73240) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tightwad gazette | 122 |
tightwad | 64 |
tightwad living | 13 |
tightwad tip | 5 |
tightwad missouri | 4 |
magazine tightwad | 4 |
gazzette tightwad | 4 |
cyber tightwad | 3 |
gazette newsletter tightwad | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tightwad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kurnac (churl, churlish, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, pinchpenny), koprrac (avaricious, cheese paring, churl, clam, close-fisted, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, grasping, griping, mean, mingy, miser, money grubber, money-grubbing, muckworm, narrow, near, rapacious, saving, screwy, scrimp, sharpener, skin, skinflint, stingy, tight-fisted, turn-penny). (various references) | |
Arabic | الشحيح (skinflint), البخيل (churl, miser, screw, skinflint). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стипца (alum). (various references) | |
Farsi | شخص خسیس . (various references) | |
French | radin (tightfisted). (various references) | |
German | Geizkragen (meanie, miser, misers, skinflint). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsugori (avaricious, churlish, costive, curmudgeon, fisty, mingy, miser, miserly, parsimonious, pinching, screw, screwy, shabby, skinflint, sordid, stingy, thrifty, to flay a flint), fösvény (avaricious, churlish, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, miserly, money grubber, near, parsimonious, pelting, penurious, shabby, skinflint, stingy). (various references) | |
Italian | avaro (avaricious, close, grasping, greedy, hard-fisted, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, near, penurious, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightfisted). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | がっちり屋 (burning with desire for something, firmly, greedily, gulping down, guzzling, latched onto, locked onto), 悋嗇 (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, stinginess), 吝嗇 (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, stinginess). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がっちりや, り"しょく (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, stinginess), けち (miser, miserliness, pinching pennies, skinflint, stinginess). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightwadtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | unha-de-fome (grasping), indivíduo avarento. (various references) | |
Russian | скупец (clam, close liver, curmudgeon, miser, nickel nurser, scrimper, skinflint), скряга (cheapskate, clam, close file, curmudgeon, flay-flint, hunks, miser, muckworm, nickel nurser, scrooge, skinflint). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tvrdica (chuff, churl, hoarder, miser, moneybag, moneygrubber, scrooge, skinflint). (various references) | |
Spanish | tacan~o (cheapie, cheapskate), tacaño (cheapie, cheapskate, cheeseparing, close, mean, mingy, miser, miserly, penny-pinching, penurious, piker, pinchpenny, screw, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight), de cicatero, de avaro, cicatero (miser), avaro (avaricious, close-fisted, grasper, grasping, grudging, miser, miserly, money grubber, money-grubbing, parsimonious, penurious, scrimpy, tight-fisted). (various references) | |
Swedish | snåljåp (curmudgeon, piker, skinflint). (various references) | |
Turkish | pinti (cheeseparing, churlish, close-fisted, mangy, miser, parsimonious, screw, skinflint, stingy, ungenerous), cimri (chary, cheapskate, cheeseparing, 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, ungenerous). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупій (miser), скупердяга. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ keo cú. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tightwad": tightwads. (additional references) | |
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"Tightwad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tightwar, tithwal, Tynwald, Tytgat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-i-t-t-w" | |
-3 letters: dight, tight, width, wight. | |
-4 letters: adit, dawt, dita, gadi, gait, ghat, that, thaw, twig, twit, wadi, wait, watt, what, whid, whig, whit, with. | |
-5 letters: aid, ait, att, dag, dah, daw, dig, dit, gad, gat, ghi, gid, git, had, hag, hat, haw, hid, hit, tad, tag, tat, taw, twa, wad, wag, wat, wha, wig. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-h-i-t-t-w" | |
+1 letter: tightwads. | |
+4 letters: withstanding. | |
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