ˈhard-fisted, a.
[Cf. hard a. 9.]
Stingy, niggardly.
| a 1656 Bp. Hall Balm of Gilead (T.), None are so gripple and hard-fisted as the childless. 1890 Daily News 9 Sept. 4/7 Women..this soft-handed but hard-fisted sex. |
Hence hardˈfistedness.
| 1869 Marquis of Salisbury Sp. in Ho. Lords 22 July, A spirit of hard-fistedness which even Shylock would have envied. |