pinch-commons
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pinch-commons
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From pinch + commons.
noun
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A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
She listened to them with a haughty and unmoved air, and replied at length aloud, and in English—"I will not. What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning—where would be the world's want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited? They will needs come
Similar: pinch-back, pinch-belly, pinch-crust, pinchfist, pinch-gut, pinchpenny, pinch-plum
Talk about this word "pinch-commons." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pinch-commons. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pinch-commons. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pinch-commons "pinch-commons." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pinch-commons.Cite this
@misc{pinch_commons_2026,
title = {pinch-commons},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pinch-commons},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
