Contextualizebeta

cheapster

noun

Etymology

From cheap + -ster.

  1. derived from caupō
  2. inherited from *kaupōną✻
  3. inherited from *kaupōn✻
  4. inherited from ċēapian — “to buy, bargain, trade”
  5. inherited from chepen
  6. inherited from *kaup✻
  7. inherited from cēap — “trade, market, value”
  8. inherited from chep
  9. suffixed as cheapster — “cheap + ster”

Definitions

  1. A stingy person

    A stingy person; a cheapskate.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheapster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA