dry-fisted

adjective

niggardly; stingy

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Meanings

adjectivedry-fisted (comparative more dry-fisted, superlative most dry-fisted)

comparative more dry-fisted · superlative most dry-fisted

  1. archaicniggardly; stingy

    dry-fisted knights

    1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I
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