Cheapskate Definition

chēpskāt
cheapskates
noun
cheapskates
A person unwilling to give or spend money; stingy person.
Webster's New World

Someone who stingily avoids spending money.

He is such a cheapskate, he found that jumper in a dustbin.
Wiktionary
By extension, someone who doesn't give freely.
My mum is such a cheapskate that she didn't lend me money to go shopping.
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Noun

Singular:
cheapskate
Plural:
cheapskates

Origin of Cheapskate

Cheapskate Sentence Examples

  • Being a fellow cheapskate, I just have to agree.

  • I feel like a cheapskate.

  • Fred's freebie hookup was the only show in town, in the mind of the rich old cheapskate.

  • Dean wanted to add the cheapskate didn't even buy it—he swiped it from a dead hooker.

  • So, while both terms are used to describe how a person manages his or her money, a cheapskate is someone who takes frugality to the extreme.

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