canny vs close-fisted

canny

adj
  • Sounding as if it is coming through a tin can. 

  • Frugal, thrifty. 

  • Friendly, pleasant, fair, agreeable; (sometimes) funny. 

  • Gentle, quiet, steady. 

  • Careful, prudent, cautious. 

  • Knowing, shrewd, astute. 

adv
  • Gently, quietly; carefully, skilfully. 

  • Very, considerably; quite, rather. 

close-fisted

adj
  • tight-fisted, stingy 

How often have the words canny and close-fisted occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )