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cheesepare

verb

Etymology

From cheese + pare.

  1. derived from *per-✻ — “to bring forward, bring forth”
  2. derived from parō — “to prepare, arrange; to provide, furnish; to resolve, purpose”
  3. derived from parer — “to arrange, prepare, trim”
  4. inherited from paren
  5. compounded as cheesepare — “cheese + pare”

Definitions

  1. To pinch pennies

    To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly.

    • None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheesepare. 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