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Tightfisted

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1843, OED Evaluation: N/A

Close-fisted

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...but I only w-- stayed for one and a half years so (laughs) got half way through grade-ten when the mines all closed down and everybody was ah- you-know, tightfisted and out of work and that-sort-of-thing so my- my mother took a trip up to f-- um Artfield to her brother's place to see if she could get a job...
Reluctant to part with money