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clutchfist

noun

Etymology

From clutch + fist.

  1. derived from *(s)peys-✻
  2. derived from *fīsaną✻
  3. derived from *fistaz✻
  4. derived from *fistan✻
  5. derived from fisten
  6. compounded as clutchfist — “clutch + fist”

Definitions

  1. A miser.

    • Which, of course, her gouty, miserable clutchfist of a spouse had not.
    • Amelia abandoned her soulful mien. "You are nothing but a penny-pinching clutchfist, Hugo!"

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