burning a hole in one's pocket. Phr. amor nummi [Latin]; facile largiri
de alieno[Lat]; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [German]; les fous font les
festins et les sages les mangent [French]; "spendthrift alike of money
and of wit" [Cowper]; "squandering wealth was his peculiar art"
[Dryden].
#819. Parsimony.—N. parsimony, parcity|; parsimoniousness[obs3],
stinginess &c. adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity. avarice, greed &c.
817a. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger,
muckworm[obs3], scrimp, lickpenny[obs3], hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon,
harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer; Hessian [U.S.]; pinch fist, pinch
penny. V. be parsimonious &c. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch,
gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon
nothing, skin a flint. drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen,
beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.
Adj. parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling,
scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close; fast handed, close handed,
strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing;
chary; grudging, griping &c. v.; illiberal, ungenerous, churlish,
hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious,
greedy, extortionate, rapacious. Adv. with a sparing hand. Phr. desunt
inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Latin][Syrus]; "hoards after hoards his
rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]; "the unsunn'd heaps of miser's
treasures" [Milton].
CLASS VI
WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS
SECTION I. AFFECTIONS IN GENERAL
#820. Affections.—N. affections, affect; character, qualities,
disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament;
diathesis[obs3], idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of
mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn,
natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness,
proclivity, propensity, propenseness[obs3], propension[obs3],
propendency|; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy &c. (love)