/ · 1894 Brewer’s · N · Nip-cheese or Nip-farthing
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A miser, who nips or pinches closely his cheese and farthings. (Dutch, nippen.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.