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скуп

adj.
stresses
gen. coemption (всего количества товара); engrossing; forestalling
Gruzovik, obs. buying up; cornering
obs., inf. buying up; cornering
скупой adj.
gen. avaricious; stingy; sparing (with на + acc. pl., with); scanty; poor (of light, soil, sun, etc.); covetous; chary; churlish; close (mean • He's very close (with his money)); illiberal; near; tight-fisted; penurious; miserly; mean (not generous (with money etc.) • He's very mean (with his money / over pay)); cheeseparing; grasping; hard; niggard; screwy; scrimpy; tight; close-fisted; curmudgeonly; griping; grudging; handfast; hard-fisted; mean-spirited; narrow-fisted; pinchpenny; ungenerous; costive; pinching; near the bone; close as a clam; closefisted (Ista); short (перен. short on something; Paladino lays out plan but is short on details – Паладино излагает план, но скуп на детали; Lisa Maldonado is short on facts and long on personal attacks – Лиса Мальдонадо скупа на факты, зато щедра в переходах на личности Баян); close fisted; hard fisted; mean spirited; narrow fisted; tight fisted; managing; scarce (The reality is that you're producing a great deal with very scarce resources. I. Havkin); avid; careful; hardfisted (jagr6880); mean-hearted (Sergei Aprelikov); penny pinching; parsimonious; skimpy; niggardly (not generous; unwilling to give or spend money); anear; close handed; fast handed; miserable; sneaking; spare; stinted; strait; strait-handed; tenacious; strait waistcoat; weak; meager (of rainfall, supplies, rations, etc.); economical (о жесте, движении Побеdа); close to the bone; curmudgeon; skinny (VLZ_58)
Gruzovik miser
amer., inf. Scotch
dial. having
dial., Scotl. narrow
fig. stiff (в значении "сдержанный", например, о движениях Abysslooker); hide
Gruzovik, fig. inadequate; scraggy
idiom. close as wax (Miserly. Interex)
inf. mingy; penny-pinching; cheese-paring (Khazanova)
Makarov. churly; ironfisted; lean (о стиле, слоге); shabby
obs. avarous; scant; streight
poetic, arch. nigh
rel., christ. greedy
slang cut-rate cut rate; penny-pincher; skin; small; snide; tightwad; cheap; tightwad (someone who avoids spending money Val_Ships)
uncom. saving
vulg. tight as a fart; tight-assed
скупо adv.
gen. meanly; scantily; scantly; anear; close; miserably; narrowly; nearly; parsimoniously; shabbily (Aly19); stinting oneself; tersely; penuriously; covetously; frugally; husbandly; niggardly; ungenerously; tenaciously; grudgingly; near; skimpily
Gruzovik sparingly; stingily
Игорь Миг telegraphically
obs. avariciously; sneakingly
vernac. lousily
"Скупой" adj.
cultur. The Miser (Molière, 1668, Мольер)
lit. The Miser (1668, комедия Мольера)
Скупа adj.
prop.name Skupa
скупойприжимистый adj.
slang chintzy (Don't be chintzy. Give thе man a dollar for a cup of coffee. Не будь скупым. Дай мужику доллар на чашку кофе. Interex)
скуп
: 149 phrases in 16 subjects
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