hard-fisted
English
Alternative forms
- hardfisted
Adjective
hard-fisted (comparative more hard-fisted, superlative most hard-fisted)
- Having hard or strong hands.
- a hard-fisted labourer
- covetous; niggardly
- 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead
- It is easy to observe, that none are so gripple and hard fisted, as the childless […]
- 1646, Joseph Hall, The Balm of Gilead