/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Skinflint
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A pinch-farthing; a niggard. In the French, “pince-maille.” Maille is an old copper coin.
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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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