Closefisted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Closefisted \Close"fist`ed\, a.
     Covetous; niggardly. --Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted
     contractors." --Hawthorne.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  closefisted
       adj : unwilling to part with money [syn: {hardfisted}, {tightfisted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "closefisted":
     avaricious, cheap, clinging, close, grasping, hardfisted,
     illiberal, keeping, miserly, narrow, near, niggardly,
     penny-pinching, pinchfisted, pinching, save-all, stingy, tenacious,
     tight, tightfisted, ungenerous