pinch-gut

plural pinch-guts

1. obsoleteA miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.

   Pinch-gut—A mean purser.

   [1883, William Clark Russell, Sailors' Language, page 103

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   Por. We are my Lady Pinch-guts men, Sir. Co. Her Men? No, he Mice. We live upon crums,^([sic]) and a good Cat would run away with us all. […] L. W. I wonder at it; my Lords humour is very oppoſite to hers, he loves Grandeur. Co. So does ſhe, Sir, but hates to pat for't. She will ha' Servants for a ſhew, and they ſhall ha' Liveries for a ſhew, when company comes: But when company's gone, we are ſtripp'd and ſtarv'd; a damn'd Papiſtical Heathen.

   1690, John Crowne, “Lady Pinch-guts Houſe”, in The English Frier, act 2, scene 1, page 9

   Synonyms: pinch-back, pinch-belly, pinch-commons, pinch-crust, pinchfist, pinchpenny, pinch-plum