Meaning of penny-father | Babel Free

Definitions

A miser or penurious person who husbands each penny.

obsolete

Examples

“On a time, hee being alone fulle of griefe and care, (griefe for his folies past, and care how to get a poore living for the remainder of his dayes) the Devill came to him and asked him what hee wanted (hee came not in a shape terrible, but like an old penny-father.)”

“Good old penny-father was glad of his liquor.”

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