pleure-pain
French
Noun
pleure-pain m (plural pleure-pain)
- (obsolete) A miser, especially one who withholds food from themselves or others.
- 1617, Jacques Olivier, Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes:
- C'est un pleure-pain qui a regret de manger son bien pour vivre, […]
- Such a Pinch-belly, that he grudgeth himself sustenance,