"pinchpenny" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pinch + penny.",
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          "word": "penny-pinching"
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          "text": "Over the years, he developed a reputation as a pinchpenny who wouldn't spend money for anything.",
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          "ref": "1578, John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, published 1868, page 109:",
          "text": "That they accompt one a dastard if he be not defperate, a pynch penny if he be not prodygall, if filent a fotte, if full of wordes a foole?",
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        "One who spends little money; one who is very frugal or cautious with money."
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  "word": "pinchpenny"
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