cheesepare

English

Etymology

From cheese +‎ pare.

Verb

cheesepare (third-person singular simple present cheesepares, present participle cheeseparing, simple past and past participle cheesepared)

  1. (intransitive) To pinch pennies; to be stingy or miserly.
    • 1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night:
      “It is quite true that we have had to make what we can out of very little–and that, as you know, is typical of out whole position here.”
      ”Yes, you are practically without endowments?”
      The question was offered so as to include the Dean, who said cheerfully:
      ”Quite right. All done by cheeseparing.”
    • 2001, Sheila Fletcher, Victorian Girls: Lord Lyttelton's Daughters:
      None of which he grudged, for he felt, like his father the third Baron, that one should never cheesepare on boys' education.
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