Meanings
adjectiveclose-fisted (comparative more close-fisted, superlative most close-fisted)
comparative more close-fisted · superlative most close-fisted
- tight-fisted, stingy
She was rather close-fisted in money matters and offered him only fifty dollars, but she had to raise her price till it rose to three hundred.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 176Synonyms: hard-fisted
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivetight-fisted, stingy
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