cheap-skate

English

Noun

cheap-skate (plural cheap-skates)

1. Alternative form of cheapskate
   • 2002, Don Edgers, An Island in Time: Growing Up in the 1940s, →ISBN, page 171:

     Among the programs we listened to were: Jack Benny (who was an awful fiddle player and a cheap-skate), Fred Allen (who had people come out of doors to Allen's Ally), Fibber McGee and Molly (with a closet stuffed with pots and pans), The Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show (Charlie was a smart-aleck and Mortimer Snerd was a dunce), Burns and Allen (Gracie Allen wasn't very bright either, but she was funny), and Take It or Leave It (also called The $64 Question) and when contestants got to the final question the audience would shout, "You'll be soorrreeeey!"

   • 2007, James D. Doss, Stone Butterfly, →ISBN:

     While she performed this mental review of the local geography, Oates produced another snort. “A measly dollar—what an old cheap-skate!”

   • 2010, M. C. Beaton, Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House, →ISBN:

     When she went indoors to collect her handbag, Paul thanked his stars that Peter Frampton should prove to be a cheap-skate.