cheesepare
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cheesepare (third-person singular simple present cheesepares, present participle cheeseparing, simple past and past participle cheesepared)
- (intransitive) To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly.
- 2001, Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters:
- None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education.