dry-fisted

English

Adjective

dry-fisted (comparative more dry-fisted, superlative most dry-fisted)

1. (archaic) niggardly; stingy
   • 1604 (date written), Tho[mas] Dekker, [Thomas Middleton], The Honest Whore. […] (4th quarto), London: […] Nicholas Okes for Robert Basse, […], published 1616, →OCLC, Act I:

     dry-fisted knights

References

• “dry-fisted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.