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22 marrajo
adj.vicious.* * *► adjetivo1 (persona) sly1 (pez marino) mako————————1 (pez marino) mako* * *1.ADJ [toro] vicious, dangerous; [persona] sly2. SM1) (=tiburón) shark2) Méx (=tacaño) skinflint3) (=candado) padlock* * *- ja adjetivoa) < toro> dangerous, viciousb) < persona> sly* * *- ja adjetivoa) < toro> dangerous, viciousb) < persona> sly* * *1 ‹toro› dangerous, vicious2 ‹persona› slymako, mackerel shark* * *marrajo nm[tiburón] porbeagle -
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24 cicatear
v.1 to be sordidly parsimonious. (Colloquial)2 to be a miser, to be a skinflint, to be mean.* * *VI to be stingy, be mean* * *cicatear [A1 ]vt* * *v/i be stingy -
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28 ser más agarrado que un chotis
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29 rácana
rácano,-a
I adj fam pey
1 (con el dinero) stingy, mean
2 (con el trabajo) lazy
II sustantivo masculino y femenino
1 (con el dinero) scrooge, miser
2 (con el trabajo) layabout, slacker
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30 cicatear
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• close-fisted• miser• Nigeria• niggard• niggardliness• niggling• prudish• Scrooge• skinflint• stingy• tightfisted -
32 mísero
• beggarly• cheap skate• close-fisted• closefisted• measly• miser• miserly• on the borderline• on the brink of• Scrooge-like• skinflint• stingy• tight-fisted• tightfisted• utterly poor• wrestling match• wretchedly -
33 sacar dinero de las piedras
• be a skinflintDiccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > sacar dinero de las piedras
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34 ser muy miserable
• be a miser• be a skinflint• be miserly• be stingy
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skinflint — [skinflint΄] n. [< thieves slang: lit., one who would skin a flint for gain or economy] a niggardly person; miser … English World dictionary
Skinflint — Skin flint , n. [Skin + flint.] A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
skinflint — 1700, miser, slang; lit. kind of person who would skin a flint to save or gain something, from SKIN (Cf. skin) (v.) + FLINT (Cf. flint). Flay flint in same sense is from 1670s … Etymology dictionary
skinflint — [n] cheapskate hoarder, miser, moneygrubber*, penny pincher*, pinchfist*, pinchpenny*, Scrooge*, tightwad; concepts 348,412,423 … New thesaurus
skinflint — ► NOUN informal ▪ a miser … English terms dictionary
Skinflint — A skinflint is a person considered so miserly that he would even skin a flint to save something of it. A flint is a small piece of flintstone used to strike a spark in the tinderbox. The flints in modern day lighters aren t made of flintstone,… … Wikipedia
skinflint — UK [ˈskɪnˌflɪnt] / US noun [countable] Word forms skinflint : singular skinflint plural skinflints informal someone who does not like to spend or give money … English dictionary
skinflint — noun one who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser That skinflint would reuse dental floss if he thought it would save money … Wiktionary
skinflint — [[t]skɪ̱nflɪnt[/t]] skinflints N COUNT (disapproval) If you describe someone as a skinflint, you are saying that they are a mean person who hates spending money. Syn: miser … English dictionary
skinflint — /ˈskɪnflɪnt / (say skinflint) noun a mean, niggardly person. {skin (verb) + flint; that is, a mean person who would skin or shave a small piece off a flint to start a fire} …
skinflint — Used since the eighteenth century to describe a miserly person, one who would attempt to skin a flint in order to save money. The Opies, however, report in The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, that ‘skinflint’ is frequently used by… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address