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Meanings of skinflint in English

Portuguese
sovina

A selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend.

sovina
Usage of skinflint in English
1
Would proper ink cost the old skinflint ninepence more per gallon, perhaps?
The Guardian
2
Because I know you, and know that you are a regular skinflint.
Dead Souls
3
It was a skinflint document, and here are a couple of quotations:-
Canada and the States
4
This old skinflint is opening his bosom and handing me a knife.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
5
They do say you are a skinflint, yes, and a hard man.
The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment
6
The Imperial skinflint's idea of a good price was pretty steep.
Shadows in Bronze
7
She slaves for years to support her two children on Caesar's skinflint wages.
The new yorker
8
And I am stuck with Mr. McPherson at the drugstore-anotherskinflint.
In a gilded cage
9
It's fitting that I call Carter what he is, and he's a skinflint.
Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance
10
You don't know skinflint Plushkin who feeds his people so badly?
Dead Souls
11
You had her money but you were a bit of a skinflint, weren't you?
In a gilded cage
12
Some even went so far as to call him "a miserly skinflint."
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
13
I don't dare to go to the old skinflint again.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
14
They say she's a worse old skinflint than her husband.
Chicken Little Jane
15
A skinflint wasn't the right personality type for Zach.
A fare to remember: just whistle\driven to distraction\taken for...
16
Well, up comes the old skinflint in his buggy.
The Price She Paid
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