"skinflint" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_text": "From the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skinflints",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "skinflint (plural skinflints)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English exocentric verb-noun compounds",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842, Gogol, Dead Souls, chapter 4",
          "text": "You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser."
      ],
      "id": "en-skinflint-en-noun-xB8ptj1T",
      "links": [
        [
          "stingy",
          "stingy"
        ],
        [
          "cautious",
          "cautious"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "tightwad",
          "tightwad"
        ],
        [
          "miser",
          "miser"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɪnflɪnt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-skinflint.wav",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪnt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skinflint"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "skinflints",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "skinflint (plural skinflints)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English exocentric verb-noun compounds",
        "English lemmas",
        "English links with redundant alt parameters",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪnt",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪnt/2 syllables",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842, Gogol, Dead Souls, chapter 4",
          "text": "You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "stingy",
          "stingy"
        ],
        [
          "cautious",
          "cautious"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "tightwad",
          "tightwad"
        ],
        [
          "miser",
          "miser"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈskɪnflɪnt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-skinflint.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-skinflint.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-skinflint.wav.mp3",
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪnt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skinflint"
}