Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cheeseparing \Cheese"par`ing\, n.
A thin portion of the rind of a cheese. -- a. Scrimping;
mean; as, cheeseparing economy.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cheeseparing
adj 1: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing
administration"; "very close (or near) with his money";
"a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: {cheeseparing},
{close}, {near}, {penny-pinching}, {skinny}]