penny-father

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A miser or penurious person who husbands each penny.

   “On a time, hee being alone fulle of griefe and care, (griefe for his folies past, and care how to get a poore living for the remainder of his dayes) the Devill came to him and asked him what hee wanted (hee came not in a shape terrible, but like an old penny-father.)”