tightwad

noun Informal.

1. a close-fisted or stingy person.

noun

1. slang, mainly US and Canadian a stingy person; miser

n.“parsimonious person,” 1900, from tight in the sense of “close-fisted” (1805) + wad (n.). The notions of stringency and avarice also combine in Modern Greek sphiktos “greedy,” literally “tight.”