giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" (同)close, near, penny-pinching, skinny
cheese·par·ing / ˈtʃizˌpɛər ɪŋ / Show Spelled [cheez-pair-ing] Show IPA adjective 1. meanly economical; parsimonious. noun 2. something of little or no value. 3. niggardly economy. Origin: 1590–1600; cheese 1 + paring Related ...
Definition of CHEESEPARING 1: something worthless or insignificant 2: miserly economizing — cheeseparing adjective Examples of CHEESEPARING <Ebenezer Scrooge is portrayed as a taskmaster so dedicated to cheeseparing that he would prefer that his employees freeze to death rather than splurge on heat.>
cheeseparing [ˈtʃiːzˌpɛərɪŋ] adj penny-pinching; stingy n 1. a. a paring of cheese rind b. anything similarly worthless 2. stinginess cheese•par•ing (ˈtʃizˌpɛər ɪŋ) adj. 1. parsimonious or stingy. n. 2. something of little or no value. 3.