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 Edger 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 contestents got the 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.
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