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Meaning of pinch-commons | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.

obsolete

Examples

“She listened to them with a haughty and unmoved air, and replied at length aloud, and in English—"I will not. What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning—where would be the world's want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited? They will needs come to reform Zetland customs, let them try how they like a Zetland storm.—You that would not perish, quit this house!"”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

pinch-gut pinch-hitter pinch-me-round pinch-nose glasses Pinch-off pinchability

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