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English
Etymology
From clutch + fist.
Noun
clutchfist (plural clutchfists)
- (obsolete) A miser.
- Synonym: see Thesaurus:miser
1651, William Cartwright, The Ordinary, act 2, scene 1:No fitter place; there is / An old rich Clutchfist Knight, Sir Thomas Bitefig, / Invite him too; perhaps I may have luck, / And break his Purse yet open for one hundred. / A Usurer is somewhat exorable / When he is full: He ne'r lends money empty.
2010, Patricia Rice, Wicked Wyckerly (Rebellious Sons; 1):Which, of course, her gouty, miserable clutchfist of a spouse had not.
2014, Anne Gracie, An Honorable Thief (Harlequin Historicals; 616):Amelia abandoned her soulful mien. "You are nothing but a penny-pinching clutchfist, Hugo!"
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