"tightwad" meaning in English

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    {
      "word": "spendthrift"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tight",
        "3": "wad"
      },
      "expansion": "tight + wad",
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From tight + wad.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tightwads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tightwad (plural tightwads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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            "Human",
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            "Fundamental"
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      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "tightwaddish"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, Burt Blechman, Stations, published 1969, page 40",
          "text": "He gulps down the hot coffee and leaves a nice fat tip. No one can say he's a tightwad.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "That tightwad would drive ten miles to save a few cents on gas."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who is stingy; someone overly cautious or defensive with money."
      ],
      "id": "en-tightwad-en-noun-L4xLlACV",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "stingy",
          "stingy"
        ],
        [
          "cautious",
          "cautious"
        ],
        [
          "defensive",
          "defensive"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, derogatory) One who is stingy; someone overly cautious or defensive with money."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frugal"
        },
        {
          "word": "miser"
        },
        {
          "word": "skinflint"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tightwad"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spendthrift"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "tightwaddish"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "tight",
        "3": "wad"
      },
      "expansion": "tight + wad",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From tight + wad.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tightwads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tightwad (plural tightwads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English colloquialisms",
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1966, Burt Blechman, Stations, published 1969, page 40",
          "text": "He gulps down the hot coffee and leaves a nice fat tip. No one can say he's a tightwad.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "That tightwad would drive ten miles to save a few cents on gas."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who is stingy; someone overly cautious or defensive with money."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "stingy",
          "stingy"
        ],
        [
          "cautious",
          "cautious"
        ],
        [
          "defensive",
          "defensive"
        ],
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, derogatory) One who is stingy; someone overly cautious or defensive with money."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "frugal"
    },
    {
      "word": "miser"
    },
    {
      "word": "skinflint"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tightwad"
}