chincherye

Middle English

Noun

chincherye

1. penuriousness; lack of money
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     For right as men blamen an avaricious man bycause of his scarsetee and chincherye / in the same wyse is he to blame that spendeth over largely

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References

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