nipfarthing

plural nipfarthings

1. obsoleteA miser.

   I woulde the not a nipfarthinge, / nor yet a niggarde haue, / Wilte thou therefore, a drunkard be, / a dingthrifte, and a knaue?

   1566, “1st satire”, in Drant, Thomas, transl., A Medicinable Morall, translation of Satires by Horace

   1 more example

   Were you hoping to benefit from your sister's marriage, Sebastian? Are all the rumors I have heard of your gambling and other debts true? And is your father still the nipfarthing you have always claimed him to be?

   2017, Mary Balogh, No Ordinary Love

   Synonyms: miser