A miser, a penurious person, who “husbands” his pence
“Good old penny-father was glad of his liquor.”
Pasquil: Jests (1629).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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