pesetero
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From peseta (“former currency of Spain”) + -ero.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pesetero m (plural peseteros, feminine pesetera, feminine plural peseteras)
- (colloquial, derogatory) tight-fisted, stingy, miser
- (colloquial, derogatory) moneygrubber/money-grubber
Further reading edit
- “pesetero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014