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clutchfist en · NOUN

Etymology

From clutch + fist.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A miser.
   • Amelia abandoned her soulful mien. "You are nothing but a penny-pinching clutchfist, Hugo!" 2014, Anne Gracie, An Honorable Thief (Harlequin Historicals; 616):
   • No fitter place; there is / An old rich Clutchfist Knight, Sir Thomas Bitefig, / Invite him too; perhaps I may have luck, / And break his Purse yet open for one hundred. / A Usurer is somewhat exorable / When he is full: He ne'r lends money empty. 1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, act 2, scene 1:
   • Which, of course, her gouty, miserable clutchfist of a spouse had not. 2010, Patricia Rice, Wicked Wyckerly (Rebellious Sons; 1):

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see Thesaurus:miser