roñica

roñica

► adjetivo

1 familiar mean, stingy

► nombre masulino o femenino

1 familiar scrooge, miser

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad.

Ex. All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad.

Ex: All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

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roñica
I adjetivo stingy, miserly
II mf skinflint, tightwad

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roñica Fam

♦ adj

stingy, tight

♦ nmf

skinflint