tacaño

adj.

mean, cheap, cheapskate, close-fisted.

m.

miser, tightwad, Scrooge.

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tacaño

► adjetivo

1 mean, stingy

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 skinflint, miser

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(f. - tacaña)

adj.

stingy

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ADJ

1) (=avaro) mean, stingy

2) (=astuto) crafty

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I

-ña adjetivo stingy, mean

II

-ña masculino, femenino miser, tightwad (AmE colloq)

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

Ex. The unregistered shareware version displays a message to anyone accessing the server that the owner is too cheap to pay the shareware fee.

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. He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.

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

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.

Ex. Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.

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I

-ña adjetivo stingy, mean

II

-ña masculino, femenino miser, tightwad (AmE colloq)

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

Ex: The unregistered shareware version displays a message to anyone accessing the server that the owner is too cheap to pay the shareware fee.

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: He joked that he had to be 'very parsimonious, indeed very Scottish,' in his management of IFLA finances = Bromeó diciendo que tenía que ser "muy cuidadoso, de hecho muy escocés", en su administración de los fondos de la IFLA.

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

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.

Ex: Most of these cheapskates will not come right out and tell you that they don't want to pay anything for your software.

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tacaño¹ -ña

adjective

miserly, stingy, mean

tacaño² -ña

masculine, feminine

miser, tightwad (AmE colloq)

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tacaño

◊ -ña adjetivo

stingy, mean
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
miser, tightwad (AmE colloq)
tacaño,-a
I adjetivo mean, stingy, miserly
II sustantivo masculino y femenino miser, scrooge

'tacaño' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
cutre
- rata
- roñosa
- roñoso
- ruin
- tacaña
- agarrado
- apretado
- judío
- mezquindad
- mezquino
- mirar
- pinche
English:
cheap
- mean
- meanie
- miserly
- niggardly
- penny-pinching
- stingy
- tight
- tightfisted

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tacaño, -a

♦ adj

mean, miserly

♦ nm,f

mean o miserly person;

ser un tacaño to be mean o miserly

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tacaño

I adj fam

miserly, stingy fam

II m, tacaña f fam

miser fam , tightwad fam

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tacaño, -ña adj

mezquino: stingy, miserly

tacaño, -ña n

: miser, tightwad

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tacaño¹ adj mean

¡no seas tacaño! don't be mean!

tacaño² n skinflint

es un tacaño he's a skinflint