Meaning of clutchfist | Babel Free

Definitions

A miser.

obsolete

Examples

“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!"”

CEFR level