clutchfist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Obsolete

"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."
"Which, of course, her gouty, miserable clutchfist of a spouse had not."
"Amelia abandoned her soulful mien. "You are nothing but a penny-pinching clutchfist, Hugo!""

From clutch + fist.

clutchfists (plural)

see Thesaurus:miser

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