Frugalista

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty. informal

    "Of course, some folks think my posts here are just as dreadful, but hey... :-)) I suppose I could collect up all my own posts and cull them for book material, but in true frugalista fashion, I'd prefer to keep them in "free space" so that people can have them for nothing more than a bit of effort in hunting them down."

Example

More examples

"Of course, some folks think my posts here are just as dreadful, but hey... :-)) I suppose I could collect up all my own posts and cull them for book material, but in true frugalista fashion, I'd prefer to keep them in "free space" so that people can have them for nothing more than a bit of effort in hunting them down."

Etymology

From frugal + -ista, after the pattern of fashionista. Piecewise doublet of frugalist.

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