close-fisted vs penurious

close-fisted

adj
  • tight-fisted, stingy 

penurious

adj
  • Not bountiful; thin; scant. 

  • Miserly; excessively cheap. 

  • Impoverished; wanting for money. 

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