Proverbs 23: 6-7 “Do not eat the food of a stingy man, do not crave his delicacies; for he is the kind of man who is always thinking about the cost.”

SYNONYMS FOR frugal 1 thrifty, chary, provident, careful, prudent, penny-wise, scrimping; miserly, stingy, tight, penny-pinching. 2 scant, slim, sparing, skimpy.

about spending money

Dunce is a mild insult in English meaning a person who is slow at learning or stupid. In art, dunces are often comedically shown wearing paper cone hats – dunce caps – marked with ‘dunce’, ‘dumb’, or ‘D’.

If your man has these qualities, it is crystal clear that he is stingy:

1. No gifts. Come sun come rain, a stingy boyfriend will never get you a gift even if it’s your birthday.
2. Only calls during off peak hours.
3. He won’t give you unless you ask.
4. He doesn’t spend on himself.
5. Doesn’t spend on his family.

The KJV said, “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Either version teaches that the man who says, “eat and drink” but is really begrudging the cost in his heart, is betraying his true feelings with his false words. He doesn’t want you to eat his food and drink his wine at his expense.

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured possession. Do not eat any detestable thing. But anything that does not have fins and scales you may not eat; for you it is unclean.

stingy, close, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly mean being unwilling or showing unwillingness to share with others. stingy implies a marked lack of generosity.

‘Penny-pinching’ is an old English expression and is first recorded in Thomas Dekker’s play Shomakers Holiday, 1600: Let wine be plentiful as beere, and beere as water, hang these penny pinching fathers.

Penny as a girl’s name is of English origin and is a short form of Penelope meaning “weaver”. It has also been used as an independent name mostly in the 20th century.

Penny Hofstadter

Gender Popularity of the Name “Penny” Boy or Girl? Penny: It’s a girl! Since 1880, we have no record of any boys being named Penny while 92,788 girls were named Penny.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. The New International Version translates the passage as: Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.