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close-fisted (comparative more close-fisted, superlative most close-fisted)
- tight-fisted, stingy
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 176:
She was rather close-fisted in money matters and offered him only fifty dollars, but she had to raise her price till it rose to three hundred.