"clutchfist" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: clutchfists [plural]
Etymology: From clutch + fist. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|clutch|fist}} clutch + fist Head templates: {{en-noun}} clutchfist (plural clutchfists)
  1. (obsolete) A miser. Tags: obsolete Categories (topical): People Synonyms: see Thesaurus:miser

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, act 2, scene 1:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010, Patricia Rice, Wicked Wyckerly (Rebellious Sons; 1):",
          "text": "Which, of course, her gouty, miserable clutchfist of a spouse had not.",
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          "ref": "2014, Anne Gracie, An Honorable Thief (Harlequin Historicals; 616):",
          "text": "Amelia abandoned her soulful mien. \"You are nothing but a penny-pinching clutchfist, Hugo!\"",
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        "(obsolete) A miser."
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