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Clutchfist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A miser. obsolete

    "No fitter place; there is / An old rich Clutchfist Knight, Sir Thomas Bitefig, / Invite him too; perhaps I may have luck, / And break his Purse yet open for one hundred. / A Usurer is somewhat exorable / When he is full: He ne'r lends money empty."

Etymology

From clutch + fist.

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