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cheesepare en · VERB

Etymology

From cheese + pare.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly.
   • None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education. 2001, Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters:
   • “It is quite true that we have had to make what we can out of very little–and that, as you know, is typical of out whole position here.” ”Yes, you are practically without endowments?” The question was offered so as to include the Dean, who said cheerfully: ”Quite right. All done by cheeseparing.” 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:

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