chincherye
Middle English
Noun
chincherye
- penuriousness; lack of money
- Chaucer
- 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
- Chaucer
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chincherye in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)