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  • What is the origin of skinflint and the image it is derived from
    Skinflint is an old expression, probably from thieves slang, whose meaning suggested the idea that one would even skin a flint to save something of it The noun skinflint, which denotes a niggardly person, is first recorded in A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew (London, 1699), by “B E Gent ”: Skin-flint, a griping, sharping, close-fisted Fellow It is
  • Revision 84e6f68f-e6dd-4258-8c9b-6015ffce4f70 - English Language . . .
    Skinflint is an old expression from thieves slang whose meaning suggested the idea that one would even skin a flint to save something of it > The noun *** [skinflint] [1]***, which denotes a niggardly person, is first recorded in A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew (London, 1699), by “B E Gent ”: > - *Skin-flint, a griping, sharping, close-fisted Fellow
  • Idiom to refer to a person who is tight with money
    5 My preferred term (possibly due to UK bias) is skinflint, which pretty much covers all of your criteria: someone all-round obsessed with accumulating money and hanging on to it Other possibilities include miser or penny-pincher (primarily people who are reluctant to spend), or moneygrabber or hoarder (for people who relentlessly accumulate)
  • single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    The word skinflint comes to mind: a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser Example of usage: He was so mean, would ask the barber for a free haircut But the skinflint was actually a very wealthy man Word origin of 'skinflint' C18: referring to a person so avaricious that he would skin (swindle) a flint In other words, a skinflint would swindle a stone to save money
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    For the record, you can no more have differences "among" words than the eye of a daisy can ever be "among" its petals These always have to be "between", just like choosing between several candidates, never "among" them
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  • etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    The original and older spelling appears to be "skinnymalink" The following extract from the The New York Times suggests that in this case the image of skinniness may have been derived from the that of a chain and hooks (links) that hold a pot over the fire: From skinny malink, in a comic song on the London stage around 1870 The Scottish National Dictionary has skinnymalink (ie), for an
  • etymology - If you can be discombobulated, is it possible to be . . .
    It's a slang (originally American) word of unknown origin that goes back well over a century Probably just a fanciful alliteration of discommode, discomfit, discompose, etc It certainly doesn't derive from some pre-existing word combobulate I think normally you'd be understood if you tried to use that 'back-formation', but I don't think it will catch on
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