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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food..
She listened to them with a haughty and unmoved air, and replied at length aloud, and in English—"I will not. What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning—where would be the world's want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited? They will needs come to reform Zetland customs, let them try how they like a Zetland storm.—You that would not perish, quit this house!"
Use pinch-commons when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pinch-commons means (obsolete) A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food..
Common synonyms include pinch-back, pinch-belly, pinch-crust, pinchfist.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
She listened to them with a haughty and unmoved air, and replied at length aloud, and in English—"I will not. What if this house be strewed in ruins before morning—where would be the world's want in the crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited? They will needs come to reform Zetland customs, let them try how they like a Zetland storm.—You that would not perish, quit this house!"
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