sparesome

comparative more sparesome · superlative most sparesome

1. nonstandardeconomical; thrifty

   […] the common remark being, “Oh! we must be sparesome now, the feast days are near at hand.”

   1864, Henry Mayhew, German Life and Manners as Seen in Saxony at the Present Day, page 285

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   When my great-grandfather came to this country, Germany really didn't exist. He came from Württemberg. Now the Swabish people had the reputation similar to [what] the Scottish people have in the British Isles. We are the most sparesome, thrifty, stingy of all Germans.

   2010, Hemalata C. Dandekar, Michigan Family Farms and Farm Buildings, page 54