Nip-cheese or Nip-farthing.

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.

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Nine Worthies
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Nip in the Bud
Nip-cheese or Nip-farthing
Nipperkin (A)
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