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- noun Plural form of
pinchfist .
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Examples
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Keeping open house, and hospitable to the point of vulgarity, they were, it was evident, pinchfists when it came to parting with their money.
Australia Felix 2003
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But worst of all is the fray raging between the misers and their own offspring, for wasting the goods and money which, the old pinchfists aver, 'cost us much pain on earth, and here endless anguish.'
The Visions of the Sleeping Bard Ellis Wynne 1702
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Wounds and all, I'll thank Admiral Magnusson every day I've got left to me, for turning them back the way he did, with that skeleton force the pinchfists on Terra allowed us. "
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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