Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
4. Monetary Relations

819. Parsimony.

   NOUN:PARSIMONY, parcity [obs.]; parsimoniousness, stinginess &c. adj.; stint; illiberality, avarice, tenacity, avidity; rapacity, extortion, malversation, venality, cupidity; lack of prodigality [See Prodigality]; selfishness [See Selfishness]; auri sacra fames [L.]; cheeseparings and candle ends.
  MISER, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, skin [slang], codger [dial. Eng.], money-grub [slang], muckworm, scrimp [colloq.], pinchgut [obs. or vulgar], lickpenny, hunks [colloq.], curmudgeon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U. S.]; pinchfist, pinchpenny [obs].
  Harpagon, Euclio, Silas Marner, Daniel Dancer.
   VERB:BE PARSIMONIOUS &c. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, fam- ish, live upon nothing, skin a flint [colloq.], pinch a sixpence till it squeaks.
  drive a bargain, cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
   ADJECTIVE:PARSIMONIOUS, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, penny wise, near, near as the bark on a tree, niggardly, close; close-handed, close-fisted, fast handed [obs.], hard-fisted, straithanded [obs.], tight-fisted; tight [colloq.], sparing; chary; grudging, griping &c. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious; greedy, extortionate, rapacious; underpaid.
   ADVERB:with a sparing hand.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. Desunt inopiæ multa avaritiœ omnia.—Syrus
2. Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill.—Goldsmith
3. The unsunn’d heaps of miser’s treasures.—Milton
4. A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise.—Hawthorne
5. All these men have their price.—Walpole