A steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces, used for smoothing wood or metal
English: file
kikirBahasa Indonesia
mean, stingy, beggarly, cheap, cheeseparing
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#16,175 of the corpus · 3 per million words · 12,941 occurrences
Noun
A coarse file with sharp pointed projections
English: rasp, wood file
Bahasa: kukur
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A stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
English: miser
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Adjective
Deficient in amount or quality or extent
English: meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
Bahasa: kekurangan, pelit, bakhil, medit, cekel, singkat tangan, tangkai kering, tembok kering
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Unwilling to spend
English: stingy, ungenerous
Bahasa: pelit, bakhil, kedekut, lokek, medit, cekel, singkat tangan, tangkai kering
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Embarrassingly stingy
English: cheap, chinchy, chintzy
Bahasa: pelit
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3 more adjective senses
Giving or spending with reluctance
English: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny
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(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
English: mean, mingy, miserly, tight
Bahasa: bakhil, kedekut, lokek
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(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt
English: beggarly, mean
Bahasa: bakhil, kedekut, lokek
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