Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a person who is stingy and miserly.
verb (used without object), cheap·skat·ed, cheap·skat·ing.
- to act in a stingy or miserly way.
noun
- informal a miserly person
also cheap skate, “miserly person,” 1896, from cheap (adj.), second element perhaps from American English slang skate “worn-out horse” (1894), of uncertain origin.