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English
Etymology
nip + farthing
Noun
nipfarthing (plural nipfarthings)
- (obsolete) A miser.
1566, “1st satire”, in Drant, Thomas, transl., A Medicinable Morall, translation of Satires by Horace:I woulde the not a nipfarthinge, / nor yet a niggarde haue, / Wilte thou therefore, a drunkard be, / a dingthrifte, and a knaue?
2017, Mary Balogh, No Ordinary Love:Were you hoping to benefit from your sister's marriage, Sebastian? Are all the rumors I have heard of your gambling and other debts true? And is your father still the nipfarthing you have always claimed him to be?
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